all ecosystems—had recently sharply departed from the stability that they had shown for thousands of years during the Holocene epoch, a stability which allowed human civilization to grow and ...

“But humans have in fact been influencing the ... And that meant the climate and ecosystems of the Holocene epoch — which began 11,700 years ago at the end of the last ice age — were gone ...

Humans have become the single most influential species on ... For the last 11,500 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch. It began at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers that had ...

There is no question that the existence of humans as a species has dramatically ... state of the Anthropocene and the end of the Holocene epoch that has defined the planet's past 11,700 years.

The conference chairman kept referring to the Holocene ... If we have indeed entered a new epoch, then when exactly did it begin? When did human impacts rise to the level of geologic significance?

Humans’ impact has been so profound that scientists have proposed that the Holocene era be declared over and the current epoch (beginning in about 1900) be called the Anthropocene: the age when the ...

Technically, the current epoch is the Holocene, but human activity has altered the world so significantly, that, with our usual species-centric perspective, we have shunned hubris and given the ...

“Beppu Bay is a silent witness to how significantly human activity has disturbed ... Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the ...

The Anthropocene, if it gains formal recognition, would follow the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 ... also reflected a wide range of other human impacts including acid rain, global warming ...

Holocene: The current geological epoch, which began approximately 11,700 years ago, following the end of the last Ice Age, marked by the development of human civilizations. Endemic species ...

Throughout the Holocene epoch, paraglacial sediment supply to river ... at rates and with outcomes not experienced previously in human history 6 As a result, significant latitudinal shifts will ...