Anthropocene Epoch: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
General treatments of the Anthropocene Epoch appear in W. John Kress and Jeffrey K. Stine (eds.), Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans (2018); Jeremy Davies, The Birth of the Anthropocene (2016); Paul Dukes, Minutes to Midnight: History and the Anthropocene Era from 1763 (2011); William F. Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (2010); Simon Dalby, Security and Environmental Change (2013); Fred Pearce, With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change (2007); and Frank Oldfield, Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Perspectives (2005).
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John P. Rafferty
John P. Rafferty writes about Earth processes and the environment. He serves currently as the editor of Earth and life sciences, covering climatology, geology, zoology, and other topics that relate to the natural world.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: UNESCO - Anthropocene: the vital challenges of a scientific debate. | Oct 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Philosophical Transactions B - The biosphere in the Anthropocene. | Feb 20, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: LOUIS Pressbooks - Modern World History - The Anthropocene. | Jan 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at UMaine - A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch (PDF). | Nov 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: UCL Discovery - A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch (PDF). | Sep 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Geological Society of America - The ?Anthropocene? epoch: Scientific decision or political statement? | Apr 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - An official welcome to the Anthropocene epoch - but who gets to decide it's here? (PDF). | Oct 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: NERC Open Research Archive - Introduction. The Anthropocene � A new epoch of geological time? | Aug 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - Are We in the �Anthropocene,� the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say. | Jul 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Geological Society of America - Nuclear Winter and the Anthropocene. | Jun 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age. | Apr 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Anthropocene: Have humans created a new geological age? | Nov 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO - Anthropocene: the vital challenges of a scientific debate. | Sep 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Apocalyptic Anthropocene Epoch and its management in India. | Jun 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National History Museum - What is the Anthropocene and why does it matter? | Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The Anthropocene: neglects, misconceptions, and possible futures. | Feb 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A - The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time? | Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - The Anthropocene. | Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Aug 20, 2018 | ||
| Noted that the Anthropocene Working Group has recommended the elevation of the Anthropocene to the status of a formal interval of geologic time with a start date of 1950. | Aug 31, 2016 | ||
| Graph of world population added. | Aug 31, 2016 | ||
| Text added describing the possible starting times of the Anthropocene Epoch. | May 08, 2015 | ||
| Added reconfigured geologic time scale. | Mar 07, 2012 | ||
| Deleted photograph. | Nov 21, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Anthropocene. | Aug 12, 2011 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Aug 04, 2011 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Aug 04, 2011 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 27, 2010 | ||
| Geologic time data updated. | Sep 11, 2009 | ||
| New article added. | Feb 23, 2009 |
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