Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet, from rapid declines in biodiversity to increases in Earth’s temperature by ...

The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and ...

The term "Anthropocene," coined in the 1980s by biologist Eugene Stormer, refers to our current geological epoch: a period singularly defined by the dominant influence of human activity on climate and ...

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The cover package of this week’s TIME—which should still be on newsstands—detailed the 10 ideas that are changing your life. What kind of ideas, you ask? Well there’s the living alone as the new ...

Foreword / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Introduction / W. John Kress and Jeffrey K. Stine -- I A changing planet -- The advent of the Anthropocene / J. R. McNeill -- Thinking like a mountain in the ...

While emerging from the geological and earth system sciences and frequently understood as a solely environmental matter, over the last decade the Anthropocene has become an important name for a much ...

This is part 1 of a three-part series that traces the origins of the Anthropocene - the current geological epoch that speaks bluntly to humanity's impact on the environment - and the unfolding 'Sixth ...

Foreword / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Introduction / W. John Kress and Jeffrey K. Stine -- I The advent of the Anthropocene / J.R. McNeill -- Thinking like a mountain in the Anthropocene / Scott L. Wing -- ...