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• World-renowned sociologist to deliver Anthropocene lecture

  Date: 16 May 2019

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  Professor Bruno Latour, the award-winning and renowned sociologist, philosopher and anthropologist, will deliver a lecture on the Anthropocene at...

• Leicester experts call for recognition of the Anthropocene epoch

  Date: 27 Aug 2024

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  Geologists from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (UK) have joined forces with more than 50 peers to call for an official recognition of a proposed...

• Chickens to be marker of Anthropocene

  Date: 12 Dec 2018

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  Consumption of chickens signals new geological epoch according to research led by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Modern meat chickens are a defining...

• Dawn of the Anthropocene concept

  Date: 9 Apr 2018

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  Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely...

• The Anthropocene as Rupture

  Date: 22 May 2017

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  Australian academic Professor Clive Hamilton will be discussing how over the last two decades the new discipline of Earth System science has...

• Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene

  Date: 4 Sep 2018

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  The Anthropocene Working Group holds meeting at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Humans have had a large impact on Earth.

• Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene

  Date: 18 May 2022

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  Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our...

• Scientists home in on a potential Anthropocene Golden Spike in new research

  Date: 4 Jan 2018

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  The international working group, which includes geologists Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters, from our School of Geography, Geology...

• The Anthropocene Leicester scientists respond to criticisms of new geological epoch

  Date: 23 Mar 2017

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  A team of academics from our University has responded to criticisms of the proposal to formalise a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.

• What is the Anthropocene and why is it relevant for international law

  Date: 27 Jun 2016

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  An article written by Professors Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the Department of Geology with Professor Davor Vidas of the Fridtjof...