The Dawn of the Anthropocene Era 'We Are the Top Predator on Earth' Global warming, rising sea levels, mass extinction of species: Mankind is changing the planet to such an extent that an increasing ...

Our appearance and the way we move, rest, sleep, think, eat, gather and communicate have all changed dramatically since Homo sapiens first walked the planet probably well over 300,000 years ago. We ...

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, ...

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 ...

Archaeological records suggest early farmers deforested more land worldwide than expected The changes likely added more greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere%2C warming ...

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 ...

An international group of researchers is working to define a new geological era that will more accurately describe the current state of the planet. Called the Anthropocene era, this geological unit ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Humans drive trillions of miles in cars, clear-cut forests for agriculture and create vast landfills teeming with tin cans, soda bottles and other detritus of industrialization.

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 ...

If we continue to burn coal, oil, and gas until resource depletion forces the switch later on, our emissions will drag the Earth back into a primeval super-warm state. But that doesn’t have to happen.

There is growing evidence that human activity has changed the Earth’s system to such an extent that we are now in a new geological age. This is according to members of the Anthropocene Working Group ...