That, Zalasiewicz says, is what we are in the process of determining. The word “Anthropocene” was coined by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen about a decade ago. One day Crutzen, who shared a Nobel ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

The “Lunar Anthropocene” concept is based on the ... A Bible was left on a lunar rover in the Hadley Plains area of the moon by David Scott, commander of the Apollo 15 mission, in 1971.

We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant global warming and other changes to land, ...

This resource give an introduction to the Anthropocene - the recent time in which humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, ccausing significant global warming and other ...

The second area of interest is the contemporary ‘herbicide revolution ... and the production of knowledge and regulatory science in the Anthropocene. Finn Mempel, PhD student, Institute of ...

A new study dates the start of the Anthropocene, the epoch where human impact on the Earth system causes it to deviate from ...

In August 2016, scientists participating in the Anthropocene Working Group put forward an official recommendation to rename our present time interval ‘the Anthropocene’. It postulates that humans now ...

Written by gibbon researchers and practitioners from across the world, the book discusses conservation challenges in the Anthropocene and presents practice-based approaches and strategies to save ...