POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – An Idaho State University professor’s research is tackling one of the hottest debates in geology: Has human activity changed the planet enough to mark a new geologic ...

Geologists measure time in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. They propose we have moved from the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age to the ...

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 ...

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

Canada's Crawford Lake may hold evidence that humans have fundamentally changed Earth enough to have started the Anthropocene, a new chapter in geologic time.

A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially declare the start of a new interval of geologic time, one defined by humanity’s changes to the planet. By Raymond Zhong The Triassic was ...

Time will tell: Geoscientists develop tool to chronicle unexplained gaps in the rock record. by Mary-Ann Muffoletto, Utah State University ...

As visitors walk through the new Evolution Garden at the Natural History Museum in London, they will journey through 540 million years of shifting ecosystems in 15 minutes. Every yard or so, they ...