Anthony D. Barnosky

Sep 2, 2024 | geoscientist.online | Elizabeth A Hadly |Anthony D. Barnosky

It doesn’t matter that the high courts of geology recently denied the existence of the Anthropocene Epoch. It’s here, and it gets more real every day. The Holocene includes the last eleven millennia, when tomorrow looked pretty much like yesterday, when predictability ruled, when we knew what crops to plant when and where, which flowers bloomed on spring’s long-established schedule, and what week of what month birdsong would fill the air.

Jul 16, 2024 | pubs.usgs.gov | Mark Williams |Jan Zalasiewicz |Anthony D. Barnosky |Reinhold Leinfelder

The “Great Acceleration” beginning in the mid-20th century provides the causal mechanism of the Anthropocene, which has been proposed as a new epoch of geological time beginning in 1952 CE.

May 13, 2024 | phys.org | Mark Williams |Anthony D. Barnosky |Elizabeth A Hadly |Jan Zalasiewicz

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep past that allow us to marvel at the history of life on Earth, of animals that walked or swam many millions of years ago, of the giant trees that became buried and crushed to form coal.

Apr 23, 2024 | thenarwhal.ca | Lindsay Sample |Anthony D. Barnosky |Mary Ellen Hannibal

When Shannon Waters first joined the press gallery at the B.C. legislature, the decision on whether or not to continue the Site C dam project was looming large. Shannon was there as a reporter for BC Today, a daily political newsletter, and she remembers being blown away by long-time Narwhal reporter Sarah Cox’s work.