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- Why do some leading geologists reject the term "Anthropocene"? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-epic-row-over-a-new-epoch 35 comments
- The anthropocene era of man's dominance began in 1610, claim scientists http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-anthropocene-era-of-mans-dominance-began-in-1610-claim-scientists-10101690.html 2 comments
- This word was rejected by geologists. But it’s already taken over the world. A panel of scientists rejected the term “Anthropocene” to describe a period in which humans have profoundly impacted the environment — but others keep using it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/10/anthropocene-epoch-human-climate-impacts/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE3OTkyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE5Mzc0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTc5OTIwMDAsImp0aSI6IjI5MGI2NDgzLWM2MGYtNDUwNC1hMzk3LTY5YWUyYTRhYzE1MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDYvMTAvYW50aHJvcG9jZW5lLWVwb2NoLWh1bWFuLWNsaW1hdGUtaW1wYWN0cy8ifQ.25yCeyLV0YI1C1hoOIUOAi-hMx3Fc7W_FCaq8aco1CE 29 comments climate
- Rejecting the 'Anthropocene' designation is a mistake for humanity https://iai.tv/articles/rejecting-the-anthropocene-is-a-mistake-auid-2806?_auid=2020 4 comments climate
- The Anthropocene age reveals the insanity at the heart of western Christian religious experience, informed by Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Such beliefs ignore suffering of other species, justify exploitation of other species, and force nature to adapt to human needs and desires. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11089-024-01126-x 13 comments science
- Are We in the ‘Anthropocene,’ the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/climate/anthropocene-epoch-vote-rejected.html 3 comments worldnews
- ‘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
- ‘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
- A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch https://www.episodes.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021029 9 comments science
- The Role of Capitalism in Causing the Geological Changes Associated with the Anthropocene https://medium.com/@s.sahebi111/the-role-of-capitalism-in-causing-the-geological-changes-associated-with-the-anthropocene-183869ac8e89 6 comments climate
- 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
- Why recognizing the Anthropocene Age doesn't matter https://blog.oup.com/2019/12/recognizing-anthropocene-age-doesnt-matter/ 3 comments philosophy
- Fire and Biodiversity in the Anthropocene - Science Mag https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6519/eabb0355 6 comments science
- Global heat records being broken year after year is “drumbeat of the Anthropocene” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/15/climate-emergency-2019-was-second-hottest-year-on-record 27 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
- Anthropocene Workinf Group Votes to Formally Recognize the “Human Epoch” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01641-5?fbclid=iwar2lbvhqhrxgx9qrt-03yvm6wdak8jlqsft6mxdelpezcjf4whsanuhlo6o 3 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
- The 'New Existential Dilemma' post reminded me of this great 2013 article: "Learning how to die in the Anthropocene" https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/ 3 comments philosophy
- 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
- Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces. Researchers behind ‘Anthropocene equation’ say impact of people’s intense activity on Earth far exceeds that of natural events spread across millennia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/12/humans-causing-climate-to-change-170-times-faster-than-natural-forces 28 comments science
- Think pollution is just an on-Earth problem? Anthropocene junk is in space too https://aeon.co/videos/think-pollution-is-just-an-on-earth-problem-anthropocene-junk-is-in-space-too 5 comments space
- An official welcome to the Anthropocene epoch: Scientists declare a new age of humanity http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/an-official-welcome-to-the-anthropocene-epoch-scientists-declare-a-new-age-of-humanity/ 9 comments science
- Earth has officially entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/29/anthropocene-here-humanity-has-pushed-earth-new-epoch 4 comments worldnews
- The human impact on Earth's chemistry and climate has ended the 11,700-year-old geological epoch known as the Holocene and ushered in a new one, the Anthropocene. http://phys.org/news/2016-08-anthropocene-scientists.html 173 comments worldnews
- Science AMA Series: Hi Reddit, I’m Mike Ellis, head of climate and landscape change science at the British Geological Survey and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group, here to talk about the impact of human activity on the Earth. Ask Me Anything! http://tinyurl.com/hso4tdg 511 comments science
- Scientists say Anthropocene epoch is the 'Age of Plastic'. "If all the plastic made in the last few decades was clingfilm, there would be enough to put a layer around the whole Earth," researcher Jan Zalasiewicz said. http://www.upi.com/science_news/2016/01/27/scientists-say-anthropocene-epoch-is-the-age-of-plastic/5331453915485/?spt=sec&or=sn 15 comments science
- Humans Leave a Telltale Residue on Earth - Scientists find a layer of plastics, radiation and soot embedded in the planet's surface, defining a new Anthropocene epoch http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-leave-a-telltale-residue-on-earth1/ 9 comments worldnews
- We are officially in the "Anthropocene Epoch", say geologists; "Unless there's some unforeseen calamity caused by volcanic activity or a meteor," they argued, "mankind will remain a major geological force for many millennia, maybe millions of years, to come." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-11/the-year-humans-started-to-ruin-the-world 56 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 21 comments worldnews
- An international group of scientists has proposed the date of the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history – the Age of the Anthropocene. Scientists identify July 16, 1945, as key time boundary in Earth history http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/15/researchers-propose-earths-anthropocene-age-of-humans-began-with-fallout-and-plastics/?smid=re-share 5 comments science
- Humanity's terrifying impact on Earth justifies new Anthropocene epoch http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/16/humanitys-terrifying-impact-on-earth-justifies-new-anthropocene-epoch 4 comments worldnews
- Anthropocene: We might be about to move from the Holocene to a new epoch http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/anthropocene-we-might-be-about-to-move-from-the-holocene-to-a-new-epoch-9798854.html 3 comments science
- Is Human Impact Accelerating Out of Control? The conference has already declared that the Holocene Epoch is now over and that the Anthropocene -- in other words, the epoch when the impact of human activity will be clearly seen in the future in the geological record -- has already begun. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-human-impact-accelerating-out-of-control 68 comments worldnews
- The Anthropocene Debate - Do Humans Deserve Their Own Geological Era? - With climate change, concrete deserts and agriculture, human beings have fundamentally altered the face of the Earth. But have we really ushered in a new geological era, the so-called Anthropocene? http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,773233,00.html 8 comments science
- Welcome to the Anthropocene. Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it too. http://www.economist.com/node/18744401?story_id=18744401&fsrc=rss 25 comments science
- Scientists debating whether to name a whole epoch after human effects on the planet. They want to call it Anthropocene. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110511/full/473133a.html 11 comments science
- End of an Epoch: Nature Becomes Us | We are now entering the “Anthropocene” era, one in which there's no separation between human activities and what we used to call nature. http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=c0839b3543f46b1918265cdb967c9a87 4 comments science
- Scientists announce Earth entering a new Geological epoch - welcome to the Anthropocene Epoch http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080127/sc_livescience/humansforceearthintonewgeologicepoch 3 comments science