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But other scientists disagree that Earth has moved into a new geological epoch. Erle Ellis, a professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ...

For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a dried-up salt plain cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western ...

Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree ...

The duo suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern humans have been around for around a mere 200,000 years. Yet in that time we have ...

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...