Human societies didn’t just adapt to the planet—they learned to reshape it. From early fire use to today’s global supply ...

Human society has become an independent geological force, comparable in scale of impact with natural processes. This is the ...

And of course, there is the ever-present danger that nuclear war or other destructive acts could create a sudden extinction event. As a result of these human-centered threats, some researchers call ...

This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in the geological time scale: the Anthropocene epoch. It’s the age in which human activity, for the first time, ...

From the end of nature to the beginning of the anthropocene -- Lost dogs, last birds, and listed species: elegy and comedy in conservation stories -- From arks to ARKive.org: database, epic, and ...