Ten years ago a group of geologists assembled to consider a startling proposition: That human impacts on the Earth are so profound they are unintentionally tipping it over a geological threshold. The ...

Scientists have made the case that Earth has entered a new epoch known as the Anthropocene. Unlike previous epochs, dating Earth's 4.6 billion-year history, which came about through natural changes, ...

Last week, a panel of scientists voted in favor of classifying the age we are living in as a new geological epoch—the "Anthropocene"—after reviewing available evidence on the issue. Since it was first ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - There is currently great debate between meteorologists, climatologists, geologists, environmentalists and just about any other type of scientis about whether or not we are in a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. River full of debris Getty Images/panaramka Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass ...

A panel of scientists on Tuesday chose a small suburban lake in Ontario, Canada, as the symbolic starting point to a new geologic epoch called the anthropocene, an era dominated by indelible ...

Humanity has etched its way into Earth’s geology, atmosphere and biology with such strength and permanence, a special team of scientists figures we have shifted into a new geologic epoch, one of our ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

Scientists are beginning to accept that Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, so named because humans have come to rival nature in their impact on the global environment. The ...

Scantily clad tomb raiders and cloistered scholars piecing together old pots -- these are the kinds of stereotypes of archaeology that dominate public perception. Yet archaeology in the new millennium ...

Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Yet archaeology as practiced ...