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The concept of the Anthropocene was born at a scientific meeting in Mexico in 2000, conjured by chemist and Nobel…

Crawford Lake in Canada has been proposed to mark the start of the Anthropocene Gaertner/Alamy WE MIGHT be thrust into…

Human beings first disturbed moon dust on Sept. 13, 1959, when the USSR’s unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the…

Six decades of human lunar exploration has shaped the moon’s environment. There has been enough change that some scientists argue…