Definitions Quote by Kenneth Lacovara

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few…

— Johan Rockstrom

“A few years ago, in an essay in Nature, the Nobel Prize–winning Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen coined a term. No longer, he wrote, should…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth. Species adjust or go extinct,…

— Daniel Botkin

“As I glided further into the dusty mollusk volumes, I discovered that gastropods - which account for 80 percent of all mollusks - are…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“One of the great challenges in reconstructing a mass extinction is making sense of what happened when. In the same way we have divided…

— Bill Nye

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

— Louie Psihoyos

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when…

— Kenneth Lacovara

During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.

— Johan Rockstrom

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains…

— Edward Forbes

It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes…

— Paul J. Crutzen

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals…

— Douglas Adams

“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed…

— Elizabeth Kolbert