A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Guatemala on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological ...

The Anthropocene (The Age of Humans) has been proposed as a new geological epoch after or within the Holocene, and, if formalized, would be the first to be introduced based on geologically observable ...

Kaminuma observes that the warning issued in August created confusion because it conflated events that occur within our lifetimes with those happening on a geologic time scale.

Geologic Time is a crucial concept to understanding the history of the earth—including the evolution of life. Many different representations of the timeline have been created, and many approaches ...

Geologic maps are not an exact depictions of the Earth’s surface. Instead, they display a generalization of interested units and features in correspondence with the scale of a map.

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Attempt a question on a geological time scale in today's answer writing practice. (Wikimedia Commons) UPSC Essentials brings to you its initiative for the practice of Mains answer writing. It covers ...

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 may have voted down formal recognition of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, but we still need to act to prevent ecological crisis.

Many of the slices of the Geologic Time Scale are divided by when big events cause big changes and there are a significant number of Earth scientists that say that the rise of human civilization is ...

The proposal to add an Anthropocene Epoch to the geological time scale was rejected for a variety of reasons, none of them related to the fact that human societies are changing this planet.