Prakash Kashwan and Aseem Hasnain challenge Euro-American environmentalism and advocate for a justice-centred, plural vision of ecological action.

The Mortecene has shaped who we are, what we value, what we fear and what we have forgotten, and the precarious present we ...

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five ...

In my weekly column for World Politics Review, I examine the thirtieth Human Development Report, outlining a few of its biggest findings and identifying three promising mechanisms to encourage ...

A new archeology is being developed based on evidence of human activity in the Earth’s sedimentary record, and archeologists are helping to define the Anthropocene as a new stage in the geological ...

The Holocene era covers the past 12,000 years of geological history. Holocene is derived from Holos, meaning whole, and Kainos, meaning new. This is quite a small phase in the Earth’s evolution. Yet ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. For decades, Britain’s peppered moth has been the textbook example of how humans can rapidly drive evolution in another species. New textbooks might want to ...

The term "Anthropocene," coined in the 1980s by biologist Eugene Stormer, refers to our current geological epoch: a period singularly defined by the dominant influence of human activity on climate and ...

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 ...

The term Anthropocene, which is gaining wider acceptance among geologists and earth scientists, is a complex process with a straight-forward meaning: Human activity is changing the global environment ...

Mark Williams received funding from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, for work in San Francisco Bay. He is also a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. Anthony D. Barnosky is a ...