Earth Equity News

New Earth Epoch Has Begun, Scientists Say. By James Owen, National Geographic News, April 6, 2010. "The older you get, the faster the time goes. Our 4.57-billion-year-old planet may know the feeling. After all, some scientists are suggesting Earth has already entered a new age -- several million years earlier than it should have.Earth's geologic epochs -- time periods defined by evidence in rock layers -- typically last more than three million years. We're barely 11,500 years into the current epoch, the Holocene. But a new paper argues that we've already entered a new one -- the Anthropocene, or 'new man,' epoch."