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Opinion: The atomic bomb, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, laid down the marker for our era of catastrophic change

The Manhattan Project ushered in not only the nuclear age but the Anthropocene, the epoch in geological time that denotes humans' transformation of the Earth's chemistry, climate and biodiversity.

Heralding a new age – greener oceans and rising temperatures

MANY will know that our Earth’s 4.5-billion-year-old existence has been split up into geological epochs, each spanning millions of years. In an article in ‘Nature’, in 2002, by a Nobel chemistry prize winner, Paul Crutzen, coined the term for a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. Certainly,

A Lake Paves the Way for Defining the Anthropocene

Scientists recently voted to designate Crawford Lake, a small body of water in southern Canada, as the reference site of the “Age of Man.”

Good Weekend letters to the editor: August 12

Good Weekend letters to the editor: August 12