“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 ...

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 ...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

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 ...

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.

Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

The Journal of Remote Sensing, an online-only Open Access journal published in association with AIR-CAS, promotes the theory, ...

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 ...

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 ...