Chickens, concrete, computers and clothes will leave a billion-year mark in the rocks.
- Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
Même si le groupe de travail officiel a refusé la proposition de créer une nouvelle époque géologique nommée anthropocène, le débat n’est pas clos pour autant.
Such massive disruptions have in the past been caused by volcanoes or meteorites. Only humans have done this with full awareness of their actions.
Scientists Jan Zalasiewica and Erle Ellis on the recent decision to reject a proposal for a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Geologists recently voted down a proposal to formally recognise the Anthropocene.
The Anthropocene began quickly, but will last deep into the geological future.
El escenario de ciencia ficción de un planeta fabricado por el hombre ya está aquí.
The science-fiction scenario of an engineered planet is already here.
They will find minimal traces of the virus itself, but lots of PPE.
Remains of a 365m-year-old forest of extinct lycopsid trees has been found in China.
Exceptionally well preserved 500m year old fossils show Cambrian seas were more diverse than scientists had thought.
Dans quelques millions d’années, les os des poulets témoigneront de l’époque où les humains dominaient le monde.
Our research shows that, millions of years from now, fossilised chicken bones will mark the era of human domination.
What can we expect from our future climate after looking at the ‘Hothouse Earths’ of the past?
New findings from the Chagos Islands are a perfect parable for the Anthropocene.
We’re in a new geological era, say scientists.
Human beings don’t merely inhabit the world. They alter it, on an increasingly epic scale. It is said that we now live in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which geology and climate are controlled as much…
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