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IFLScience The Big Questions: Are We In The Anthropocene?article image

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IFLScience The Big Questions: Are We In The Anthropocene?

clock-iconSeptember 11, 2025

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Plastic Rocks Are A "New And Terrifying" Phenomenon Coming To A Shore Near YouBlue plasticrust seen in Giglio island, Italy in 2019.

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Plastic Rocks Are A "New And Terrifying" Phenomenon Coming To A Shore Near YouBlue plasticrust seen in Giglio island, Italy in 2019.
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Plastic Rocks Are A "New And Terrifying" Phenomenon Coming To A Shore Near You

clock-iconMay 23, 2025
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Geological Fingerprints Suggest The Anthropocene Started In The 1950sEarth globe showing artificial lights on black background.

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Geological Fingerprints Suggest The Anthropocene Started In The 1950sEarth globe showing artificial lights on black background.
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Geological Fingerprints Suggest The Anthropocene Started In The 1950s

clock-iconSeptember 27, 2024
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Melting Glaciers In Andes Are Smallest They've Been In At Least 11,700 YearsA scientist collects a sample of bedrock from the Queshque Glacier in the Peruvian Andes Mountains.

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Melting Glaciers In Andes Are Smallest They've Been In At Least 11,700 YearsA scientist collects a sample of bedrock from the Queshque Glacier in the Peruvian Andes Mountains.
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Melting Glaciers In Andes Are Smallest They've Been In At Least 11,700 Years

clock-iconAugust 1, 2024
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The Moon Has A New Timeline That Reflects What We’ve LearnedThe Moon's Compernicus crater is so significant the current period is proposed to be named after it, but it's the faint one near the edge, not the more visible one close up.

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The Moon Has A New Timeline That Reflects What We’ve LearnedThe Moon's Compernicus crater is so significant the current period is proposed to be named after it, but it's the faint one near the edge, not the more visible one close up.
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The Moon Has A New Timeline That Reflects What We’ve Learned

clock-iconMarch 12, 2024
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Geologists Conclude We Are Not Living In The Anthropocene – For NowCrawford lake contains traces of radioactivity

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Geologists Conclude We Are Not Living In The Anthropocene – For NowCrawford lake contains traces of radioactivity
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Geologists Conclude We Are Not Living In The Anthropocene – For Now

clock-iconMarch 6, 2024
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Hermit Crabs Around The World Turn To Plastic Trash To Use As ShellsA blue hermit crab wearing a red plastic cap as a shell.

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Hermit Crabs Around The World Turn To Plastic Trash To Use As ShellsA blue hermit crab wearing a red plastic cap as a shell.
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Hermit Crabs Around The World Turn To Plastic Trash To Use As Shells

clock-iconJanuary 26, 2024
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Will 2024 Be The Year Of The Anthropocene?A panoramic photo of Crawford Lake in Canada, showing the water's surface and the surrounding treeline. The clouds are reflected on the water.

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Will 2024 Be The Year Of The Anthropocene?A panoramic photo of Crawford Lake in Canada, showing the water's surface and the surrounding treeline. The clouds are reflected on the water.
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Will 2024 Be The Year Of The Anthropocene?

clock-iconDecember 29, 2023
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Lunar Anthropocene? The Moon May Have Entered A New EpochAn impact crater on the Moon.

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Lunar Anthropocene? The Moon May Have Entered A New EpochAn impact crater on the Moon.
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Lunar Anthropocene? The Moon May Have Entered A New Epoch

clock-iconDecember 12, 2023
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TWIS: Further Evidence Of Building Blocks Of Life Found On Mars, World’s Oldest Discovered Glaciers Are 2.9 Billion Years Old, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.

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TWIS: Further Evidence Of Building Blocks Of Life Found On Mars, World’s Oldest Discovered Glaciers Are 2.9 Billion Years Old, And Much More This WeekAll the biggest science news stories of the week.
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TWIS: Further Evidence Of Building Blocks Of Life Found On Mars, World’s Oldest Discovered Glaciers Are 2.9 Billion Years Old, And Much More This Week

clock-iconJuly 14, 2023
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Welcome To The Anthropocene? Scientists Propose Where And When It StartedCrawford Lake, a rare meromictic lake (where layers don't mix), has the dubious honor of being proposed as the place that indicates the start of the Anthropocene thanks to its plutonium levels from nuclear testing carried out here in the 1950s.

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Welcome To The Anthropocene? Scientists Propose Where And When It StartedCrawford Lake, a rare meromictic lake (where layers don't mix), has the dubious honor of being proposed as the place that indicates the start of the Anthropocene thanks to its plutonium levels from nuclear testing carried out here in the 1950s.
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Welcome To The Anthropocene? Scientists Propose Where And When It Started

clock-iconJuly 11, 2023
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Earth Boundaries Breaching Are Putting The Future Of Humanity At Risktree growth on globe glass in nature. concept eco earth day

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Earth Boundaries Breaching Are Putting The Future Of Humanity At Risktree growth on globe glass in nature. concept eco earth day
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Earth Boundaries Breaching Are Putting The Future Of Humanity At Risk

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Nearly 50 Percent Of All Species On Earth Are Sliding Towards ExtinctionSnow leopard endangered species

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Nearly 50 Percent Of All Species On Earth Are Sliding Towards ExtinctionSnow leopard endangered species
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Nearly 50 Percent Of All Species On Earth Are Sliding Towards Extinction

clock-iconMay 24, 2023
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Plastic Rocks Found On Remote Volcanic Island Are A "Terrifying” Discovery"Plastic rocks" found on Trindade Island in the state of Espirito Santo is seen at the laboratory of the Federal University of Parana, in Curitiba, state of Parana, Brazil March 7, 2023.

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Plastic Rocks Found On Remote Volcanic Island Are A "Terrifying” Discovery"Plastic rocks" found on Trindade Island in the state of Espirito Santo is seen at the laboratory of the Federal University of Parana, in Curitiba, state of Parana, Brazil March 7, 2023.
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Plastic Rocks Found On Remote Volcanic Island Are A "Terrifying” Discovery

clock-iconMarch 17, 2023
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There's Now 171 Trillion Bits Of Plastic Pollution In World's OceansA child surrounded by plastic ocean pollution in in Bacolod, a city on the coast of Philippines,

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There's Now 171 Trillion Bits Of Plastic Pollution In World's OceansA child surrounded by plastic ocean pollution in in Bacolod, a city on the coast of Philippines,
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There's Now 171 Trillion Bits Of Plastic Pollution In World's Oceans

clock-iconMarch 9, 2023
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