Abstract Earth System Science (ESS) is a rapidly emerging transdisciplinary endeavour
aimed at understanding the structure and functioning of the Earth as a complex, adaptive …

Growth in fundamental drivers—energy use, economic productivity and population—can
provide quantitative indications of the proposed boundary between the Holocene Epoch and …

The exponential increase in the use of plastic in modern society and the inadequate
management of the resulting waste have led to its accumulation in the marine environment …

Abstract Since 2009, the Working Group on the 'Anthropocene'(or, commonly, AWG for
Anthropocene Working Group), has been critically analysing the case for formalization of this …

It has been widely recognised that the threats to human health from global environmental
changes (GECs) are increasing in the Anthropocene epoch, and urgent actions are required …

The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science community in the
early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated as a consequence …

The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium.
Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship …

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide
levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass …

Violence in the Rakhine State of Myanmar has led to a humanitarian crisis as Rohingya
people flee across the border to Bangladesh (1). With the rapid influx of nearly 700,000 …

Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic
concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a novel …