Scientists say humans have now brought on an entirely new geologic epoch

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Date of Publication: January 7, 2016

Year of Publication: 2016

Publication City: Washington, DC

Publisher: The Washington Post

Author(s): Chris Mooney

Newspaper: The Washington Post

Chris Mooney reports on recent research pertaining to the geologic reality of the Anthropocene.

A group of 24 geoscientists on Thursday released a bracing assessment, suggesting that humans have altered the Earth so extensively that the consequences will be detectable in current and future geological records. They therefore suggest that we should consider the Earth to have moved into a new geologic epoch, the “Anthropocene,” sometime circa 1945-1964.

Read Mooney’s full report here.

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