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 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in the geological time scale: the Anthropocene epoch. It’s the age in which human activity, for the first time, ...

The evolution of the human mind has allowed us to transcend our modern understandings of time and expand into the realm of “deep time thinking.” One example of this is the Geologic Time Scale (GTS), a ...

The Industrial Age enabled humans to expand so quickly, and one consequence is the climate catastrophe we’re living in today.

In the last few years, scientists have suggested that Earth has entered a new geologic era, an age when human activity—climate change, deforestation, urbanization—is altering the planet. Artists too ...

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 ...

Los Angeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and ...