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Experts vote down proposal to officially declare the beginning of the anthropocene epoch

After a debate of nearly 15 years an expert panel has by a large majority voted down a proposal to declare the beginning of the new geologic timeline `Anthropocene´ - the human age.

Read the article, where panel member and professor at Department of Geoscience, Jan Piotrowski, is quoted by the New York Times

Front page of The New York Times

The article in The New York Times