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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the end of nature to the beginning of the anthropocene -- Lost dogs, last birds, and listed species: elegy and comedy in conservation stories -- From arks to ARKive.org: database, epic, and ...

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 ...