As rapidly receding ice sheets brought the Pleistocene epoch to an end around 12,000
years ago, the warmer and more stable climate heralded the inception of the Holocene. No …

Since the atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen first mooted it in 2000,
a variety of Earth scientists have been arguing that the Anthropocene should be added to …

The Anthropocene is currently a buzzword. The neologism now circulates far and wide–and
not only in academia, from whence (to little initial fanfare) it originated nineteen years ago …

The term “Anthropocene” to describe anthropogenic global changes and their socio-political
and philosophical repercussions has gained popularity during the past years. Although it …

For more than a decade, a movement has been gathering steam among geoscientists to
designate an Anthropocene Epoch and formally recognize that we have entered a new …

The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on
the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change …

[EN] The Anthropocene as a distinct geological era has been the subject of active discussion
within the scientific community. This era includes the notion that Homo sapiens has had a …

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th
century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and …

SUMMARY OF THE TERM ANTHROPOCENE Crutzen and Stoermer (2000) suggest that
modern technology initiated the transformation of Earth-system behavior and altered …

The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen,
has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had …