A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially declare the start of a new interval of geologic time, one defined by humanity’s changes to the planet. By Raymond Zhong The Triassic was the dawn ...

Geologists may have voted down formal recognition of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, but we still need to act to prevent ecological crisis. A view of the glaciers as polar bears, one of the ...

Jan Zalasiewicz is affiliated with Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (Chair) and Anthropocene Working Group. Erle C. Ellis is a former member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the ...

A new study makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that have pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, known as ...