Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. Those divisions may be recalibrated as new evidence appears. Organizations like the ...

Kelly Jazvac, “Plastiglomerate Samples” (2013), plastic and beach sediment, including sand, basalt rock, wood and coral. All of these found-object artworks are the results of a collaboration between ...

Scientists conduct sampling at Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada, in April 2023. Last summer, a working group chose the lake as a representative location for the influence of human activity on 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, ...

The human population explosion, soaring from 1.6 billion to over 6 billion during the 20 th century, has had a profound impact on global environments and biodiversity. However, large mammalian ...

Thousands of years from now, scientists who dig up our bones may classify our remains in a new way if the results of a momentous vote on Tuesday hold up. If they do, we’ll formally be the fossilized ...