The official timekeepers of Earth history are in an uproar after a key scientific panel decided this week that the planet’s geologic timeline should not include a radical new chapter defined by human ...

56 million years ago, the Earth experienced a major and rapid climate warming due to greenhouse gas emissions, probably due to volcanic eruptions. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has ...

There's a new name for this period of warming, Anthropocene. CATHY WURZER: With last week's heat, the impact of humans on global climate was a hot topic of conversation, no pun intended. There's a new ...

We know that soil feeds plants, but do we know how it got there in the first place? Soil forms via the interaction of five factors: parent material, climate, living beings, a land’s topography, and a ...

This is the first time that scientists have documented humanity’s geological footprint on such a comprehensive scale in a single publication. Jaia Syvitski, former executive director of the Community ...