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Bookmark or Share- Anthropocene - WikipediaThe Anthropocene is a now rejected proposal for the name of a geological epoch that would follow the Holocene, dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth up to the present day. It was rejected in 2024 by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in terms of being a defined geologic period .
- Anthropocene - Education | National Geographic SocietyThe Anthropocene Epoch is an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.
- Defining the Anthropocene - NatureRecent global environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Here we review the historical genesis of the idea and assess...
- What Is the Anthropocene and Are We in It? | SmithsonianThey argue for “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new”—because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans and altered the...
- Anthropocene: The human age - NatureThis provocative exhibit will focus on the Anthropocene — the slice of Earth's history during which people have become a major geological force.
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