Geologists reject the Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch — after …
Mar 6, 2024 · After 15 years of discussion and exploration, a committee of researchers has decided that the Anthropocene — generally understood to be the age of irreversible human impacts on the planet — will...
Geologists Make It Official: We’re Not in an ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch
Mar 20, 2024 · That means it’s official. Our planet, at least for the time being, is still in the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 years ago with the most recent melting of the ice sheets.
Geologists Have Finally Defined a New Chapter in Earth's History, …
Jul 19, 2018 · The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) recently ratified the division of the Holocene into the Meghalayan, Northgrippian, and Greenlandian ages after siding with arguments that there were clear signs of a global change in the geological record.
Uncovering the prolonged cooling events of the Holocene - Phys.org
Jun 13, 2024 · The Holocene—the last 12,000 years—has been seen as having a stable climate, with a lack of chaos that allowed humans to settle down, develop agriculture, build civilizations and thrive.
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Human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire genera
Sep 18, 2023 · Seventy-three genera of land-dwelling vertebrates, Ceballos and Ehrlich found, have gone extinct since 1500 AD. Birds suffered the heaviest losses with 44 genus extinctions, followed in order by mammals, amphibians, and reptiles.
Scientists solve a major climate mystery, confirming Earth is hotter ...
Jan 29, 2021 · This mystery is known as the "Holocene temperature conundrum," and it describes a debate that has gone on over how temperatures have changed during the Holocene, an epoch that describes the...
Revised Holocene temperature record affirms role of greenhouse …
Jan 27, 2021 · Scientists have resolved a key climate change mystery, showing that the annual global temperature today is the warmest of the past 10,000 years—contrary to recent research, according to a...
Revisiting the Holocene global temperature conundrum | Nature
Feb 15, 2023 · From a large variety of available evidence, we find support for a relatively mild millennial-scale global thermal maximum during the mid-Holocene, but more research is needed to firmly resolve...
Holocene palaeoclimate | Scientific Reports - Nature
Oct 17, 2024 · This editorial introduces the “Holocene palaeoclimate” special collection, which examines the intricate relationship between human activities and climate systems throughout the Holocene.