Shifts in Global Water Systems – Markers of a New Geological Epoch: the Anthropocene

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

  A new geologic epoch, “The Anthropocene,” is characterized by humanity’s growing dominance of Earth’s environment and a planetary transformation as profound as the last epoch-defining event — the retreat of the glaciers 11,500 years ago.   By way of illustration: Humanity has cleared an area the size of South …