{"id":267020,"date":"2024-12-18T23:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/the-anthropocene-was-officially-spurned-in-2024-but-the-idea-lives-on\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:59","slug":"the-anthropocene-was-officially-spurned-in-2024-but-the-idea-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/the-anthropocene-was-officially-spurned-in-2024-but-the-idea-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anthropocene was officially spurned in 2024, but the idea lives on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Researchers collecting\u00a0a sediment\u00a0core sample\u00a0from Crawford\u00a0Lake, Canada<\/p>\n

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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<\/a> by 12 to 4 votes. Yet for the team behind the proposal, work on defining the term \u2013 which highlights rapid, human-induced changes to Earth \u2013 continues.<\/p>\n

As it stands, the Holocene, which began about 11,700 years ago, remains the current epoch. It broadly covers a period of planetary stability during\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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