Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

Hopefully, we can learn to manage the planet in such a way that the Anthropocene extinction can be stopped. But if there is one thing we’ve learned from the history of past mass extinctions, it is ...

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, ...

While emerging from the geological and earth system sciences and frequently understood as a solely environmental matter, over the last decade the Anthropocene has become an important name for a much ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we continue to ...

This is part 1 of a three-part series that traces the origins of the Anthropocene - the current geological epoch that speaks bluntly to humanity's impact on the environment - and the unfolding 'Sixth ...

And of course, there is the ever-present danger that nuclear war or other destructive acts could create a sudden extinction event. As a result of these human-centered threats, some researchers call ...