- First atomic blast proposed as start of Anthropocene http://www.nature.com/news/first-atomic-blast-proposed-as-start-of-anthropocene-1.16739 21 comments worldnews
- First atomic blast proposed as start of Anthropocene http://www.nature.com/news/first-atomic-blast-proposed-as-start-of-anthropocene-1.16739 57 comments science
- ‘There’s been a fundamental change in our planet’: hunt on for spot to mark the start of the Anthropocene epoch https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/01/theres-been-a-fundamental-change-in-our-planet-hunt-on-for-spot-to-mark-the-start-of-the-anthropocene-epoch?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 5 comments anthropology
- Atomic Age would mark the start of the Anthropocene if proposal receives final approval https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01641-5 3 comments science
- Nuclear bomb fallout chosen to define start of Anthropocene - Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/nuclear-bomb-fallout-site-chosen-to-define-start-of-anthropocene 2 comments environment
- ‘There’s been a fundamental change in our planet’: hunt on for spot to mark the start of the Anthropocene epoch | Evolution https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/01/theres-been-a-fundamental-change-in-our-planet-hunt-on-for-spot-to-mark-the-start-of-the-anthropocene-epoch 12 comments environment
- Researchers examine 18,000 years worth of fossil pollen data to determine a new start date for the Anthropocene, suggesting it began thousands of years prior to the Industrial Revolution. https://www.inverse.com/science/when-did-the-anthropocene-start 8 comments science
- Over 250 Archaeologists Show Evidence Humans 'Transformed' Earth Long Before 1900s: A committee of geologists has proposed to mark the start of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century, based on a striking indicator: the widely scattered radioactive dust from nuclear bomb tests in the early 1950 https://theconversation.com/surveying-archaeologists-across-the-globe-reveals-deeper-and-more-widespread-roots-of-the-human-age-the-anthropocene-122008 24 comments science
- Scientists declare Earth has entered the 'Age of Man' | Influential panel votes to recognise the start of the Anthropocene epoch - The term means 'Age of man' and its origin will be back-dated to the middle of the 20th-century to mark when humans started irrevocably damaging the planet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7074409/scientists-declare-earth-entered-age-man.html 6 comments worldnews
- Scientists declare Earth has entered the 'Age of Man' | Influential panel votes to recognise the start of the Anthropocene epoch - The term means 'Age of man' and its origin will be back-dated to the middle of the 20th-century to mark when humans started irrevocably damaging the planet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7074409/scientists-declare-earth-entered-age-man.html 41 comments worldnews
- Scientists declare Earth has entered the 'Age of Man' | Influential panel votes to recognise the start of the Anthropocene epoch - The term means 'Age of man' and its origin will be back-dated to the middle of the 20th-century to mark when humans started irrevocably damaging the planet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7074409/scientists-declare-earth-entered-age-man.html 5 comments worldnews
- Scientists declare Earth has entered the 'Age of Man' | Influential panel votes to recognise the start of the Anthropocene epoch - The term means 'Age of man' and its origin will be back-dated to the middle of the 20th-century to mark when humans started irrevocably damaging the planet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7074409/scientists-declare-earth-entered-age-man.html 6 comments worldnews
- Scientists declare Earth has entered the 'Age of Man' | Influential panel votes to recognise the start of the Anthropocene epoch - The term means 'Age of man' and its origin will be back-dated to the middle of the 20th-century to mark when humans started irrevocably damaging the planet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7074409/scientists-declare-earth-entered-age-man.html 1335 comments worldnews
- Millions of years from now, fossilized chicken bones may be the best geological marker for the Anthropocene, the so-called age of humans. A new study suggests a novel answer to the debate over the best "Golden Spike" future researchers could use to denote the start of our new epoch. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/12/11/anthropocene-chickens-golden-spike/ 21 comments science
- Humans have so profoundly altered the Earth that some scientists argue our current geologic epoch requires a new name: the Anthropocene. But defining the start of the era is tricky. A method to measure levels of human-made contaminants in sediments could help pinpoint the Anthropocene’s onset https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2017/october/determining-when-humans-started-impacting-the-planet-on-a-large-scale.html 12 comments science