The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on
Researchers collecting a sediment core sample from Crawford Lake, Canada Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the proposal to define a new epoch by 12 to 4 votes. Yet for the … Read more