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Holocene

数座高低错落的烟囱将浓烟倾泻在城市上空。从建筑物的顶部可以隐约看到山脉和橙色的天空。
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一些专家认为人类世应得到官方认可

by Saima May Sidik 29 April 20255 May 2025

国际地质科学联合会选择不指定新的地质时代,但这个问题还没有得到解决。

Varias chimeneas a diferentes niveles lanzan humo sobre una ciudad. Una cadena montañosa y un cielo anaranjado se pueden ver detrás de la cima de los edificios.
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El Antropoceno merece reconocimiento oficial, sostienen algunos expertos

by Saima May Sidik 3 April 20253 April 2025

La Unión Internacional de Ciencias Geológicas decidió no designar una nueva época geológica, pero el asunto aún no se ha resuelto.

Several smokestacks at different levels pour smoke over a city. A mountain range and orange sky can just be seen peeking out over the tops of the buildings.
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Anthropocene Deserves Official Recognition, Some Experts Maintain

by Saima May Sidik 25 March 202530 April 2025

The International Union of Geological Sciences chose not to designate a new geologic epoch, but the matter is not yet settled.

Two people row boats across a blue lagoon, which is flanked by verdant trees.
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The Crocodile Dundee Site Helping Rewrite the History of Australian Bushfires

by Bill Morris 4 April 20244 April 2024

A lake made famous by Hollywood has yielded powerful new evidence that humans have conducted controlled burns on the Red Continent for tens of thousands of years.

Photo of a glacier sitting on top of rock.
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Plants Reveal the History of Earth’s Largest Tropical Ice Cap

by Ann Rowan 16 January 20249 January 2024

Rooted plants buried by advancing outlet glaciers illustrate rapid changes in the extent of Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru during the Holocene.

Map of study area with symbols.
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Machine Learning Identifies Source Volcanoes of Ash Deposits

by Paul Asimow 8 November 20236 November 2023

Tracing ash layers from explosive eruptions back to their source volcanoes is needed to evaluate hazards to population and aviation, a problem addressed by a new machine learning classification method.

A view of Earth from space fills the bottom third of the image. Above is the blackness of space.
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Passing Planetary Boundaries Requires Synergistic Solutions

by Saima May Sidik 6 October 20238 October 2023

Considering Earth’s interacting systems could pull the planet back into a stable operating space.

Diagram of the carbon cycling in Subglacial Lake Mercer.
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Clues from a Subglacial Lake for Holocene Grounding Line Change

by Susan Trumbore 2 May 20231 May 2023

Organic carbon sampled in the lake contained radiocarbon, indicating connection to the ocean in the mid-Holocene, when the grounding line was up to 260 kilometers inland of its current position.

Images showing the ArchKalmag14k model output for Paris (France) compared to other geomagnetic field models..
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Time-Step Filtering in Holocene Global Magnetic Field Models

by Mark J. Dekkers 9 June 20229 May 2023

Through a local fixed time-step filter, global Holocene magnetic field models remain mathematically tractable refining our insight into field variability and improving archeological dating.

Three woolly mammoths walk over a snowy steppe during the last Ice Age.
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Mammoths Lost Their Steppe Habitat to Climate Change

by Elise Cutts 19 November 20216 June 2024

Ancient plant and animal DNA buried in Arctic sediments preserve a 50,000-year history of Arctic ecosystems, suggesting that climate change contributed to mammoth extinction.

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