Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 4, 2024, the commission responsible for recognizing time units within our most recent period of geologic time – the ...

Since “Anthropocene” was coined in 2000, it has increasingly defined our times as an age of human-caused planetary transformation. On March 4, 2024, the commission responsible for recognizing time ...

The Earth is now in a new geological age. The International Union of Geological Sciences said that this age, dubbed the Meghalayan, started 4,250 years ago when drought struck the planet. We are ...

Do you know the name of the current geological epoch? I didn't. It's called the Holocene, and it began with the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago. That's a long time to us humans, but as the ...