Scientists vote to recognise Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch

The move signals the end of the Holocene epoch, which began 12,000 to 11,600 years ago  

Have human-made changes heralded a new epoch?

Experts have proposed that the new epoch—Anthropocene—began around 1950, when human-induced changes started affecting earth's geology

Semantics of Anthropocene: Have humans really formed a new era

The Earth will hardly notice when we humans are gone, just as it hardly knew we were here

Anthropocene doesn't exist and species of the future will not recognise it

The Anthropocene has come to fore as a powerful if perplexing way of talking about our current era

The Anthropocene is a nuclear epoch – so how can we survive it?

This year saw nuclear weapons tested, stockpiles renewed, and disasters remembered

Climate crisis: Is Earth destabilising?

Until now, it was all climate change and global warming to us. But the contention that that is just one among the others, is a great revelation

Climate change may have shaped ancient West Asia, finds study

Region was wetter in the past, study says