Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

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 ...

But other scientists disagree that Earth has moved into a new geological epoch. Erle Ellis, a professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ...

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In ancient China, spring rains were called "as precious as oil" for their vital role in nature's spring revival. Today, a ...

The duo suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern humans have been around for around a mere 200,000 years. Yet in that time we have ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However ...