Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of Crawford Lake, near Milton, Ontario, Canada. (Peter Power / AFP via Getty Images) Humanity has etched its way ...

Scientists have long debated the Anthropocene Epoch, a proposed unit of geologic time corresponding to the most recent period in history. It's characterized by substantial human impact on the planet.

This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in the geological time scale: the Anthropocene epoch. It’s the age in which human activity, for the first time, ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer proposed that the Holocene epoch had ended and the "Anthropocene," or human ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on the Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Humanity has etched its way into Earth’s ...

Humanity has etched its way into Earth’s geology, atmosphere and biology with such strength and permanence that a special team of scientists figures we have shifted into a new geologic epoch, one of ...