The Anthropocene

In the News . . .

• Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces -- The Guardian (12 February 2017)
  
  
• Inhabiting the Anthropocene -- Anthropocene Learning Community, University of Oklahoma
  ["This blog from the Anthropocene Learning Community at the University of Oklahoma, explores the many ways that humans are impacting the earth. Authored by an interdisciplinary group of ecologists, biologists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and other scholars, Inhabiting the Anthropocene aims to "provide a kind of 'guided tour' of scholarly literature relevant to the broad theme of the Anthropocene, and to the idea of habitability." With this aim, the blog features reflective essays (What We're Thinking) along with an extensive interdisciplinary bibliography of scholarship relating to the Anthropocene (What We're Reading). Recent contributions include a consideration by biologist Ingo Schlupp that outlines how humans influence not only species extinction, but also the rise of new species; an essay by historian Peter Soppelsa about how to date and historicize the anthropocene; and an analysis by political theorist Marit Hammond on the role of art in the Anthropocene."] -- MMB, The Scout Report, November 18, 2016, Volume 22, Number 45
  
  
• Geologists search for Anthropocene 'golden spike' -- BBC News (30 August 2016)
  
  
• The Anthropocene Epoch: Scientists Declare Dawn of Human-Influenced Age -- Guardian (29 August 2016)
  
  
• The Anthropocene epoch could inaugurate even more marvellous eras of evolution -- Guardian (29 August 2016)
  
  
• Define the Anthropocene in terms of the whole Earth -- Nature (17 August 2016)
  
  
• Generation Anthropocene: How Humans Have Altered the Planet for Ever -- Guardian (01 April 2016)
  
  
• In search of the Anthropocene Epoch [video] -- BBCNews (29 February 2016)
  
  
• Signs of the 'Human Age' -- The New York Times (11 January 2016)
  
  
• Human Impact Has Pushed Earth Into the Anthropocene, Scientists Say -- Guardian (07 January 2016)
  
  
• 'Case is made' for Anthropogenic Epoch -- BBCNews (08 January 2016)
  
  
• Scientists Peg Anthropocene to First Farmers -- ScienceDaily (17 December 2015)
  
  
• Did the Anthropocene Begin in 1950 or 50,000 Years Ago? -- Scientific American (02 April 2015)
  
  
• Anthropocene Epoch: How You Became More Powerful Than Nature -- Science 2.0 (17 March 2015)
  
  
• Anthropocene: New dates proposed for the 'Age of Man' -- BBC News (11 March 2015)
  
  
• The Human Epoch: when did it start? -- Guardian (11 March 2015)
  • Was 1610 the beginning of a new human epoch? -- Guardian (11 March 2015)
    
    
• Anthropocene: Is This the New Epoch of Humans? -- Guardian (16 October 2014)
  • Humanity's terrifying impact on Earth justifies new Anthropocene epoch -- Guardian (16 October 2014)
  • The Anthropocene age: what world will humans leave behind? -- Guardian (16 October 2014)
    
    
• People May Get Place in Geologic Time Scale -- Discovery News (16 July 2013)
  
  
• Have Humans Caused a New Geological Era? -- LiveScience (07 December 2012)
  
  
• Early human ancestor chewed bark -- Helen Briggs, BBCNews (27 June 2012)
  
  
• Welcome to the Anthropocene - what now? -- BBCNews (26 March 2012)

• "The Anthropocene" -- Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer (May 2000)
  
  
• Anthropocene: Have humans created a new geological age? -- BBCNews (10 May 2011)
  
  
• "The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity’s Impact" -- Elizabeth Kolbert, Environment 360 (17 May 2010)