Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

The Anthropocene, the concept that the Earth has moved into a novel geological epoch
characterized by human domination of the planetary system, is an increasingly prevalent …

The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of
planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented …

Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global
environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated …

The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science community in the
early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated as a consequence …

This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one
that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor …

This essay, in two parts, argues for the centrality of historical thinking in coming to grips with
capitalism's planetary crises of the twenty-first century. Against the Anthropocene's shallow …

We evaluate the boundary of the Anthropocene geological time interval as an epoch, since it
is useful to have a consistent temporal definition for this increasingly used unit, whether the …

A number of different starting dates for the Anthropocene epoch have been proposed,
reflecting different disciplinary perspectives and criteria regarding when human societies …

Human use of land has transformed ecosystem pattern and process across most of the
terrestrial biosphere, a global change often described as historically recent and potentially …