{
  "id": 6448290,
  "title": "The Anthropocene was rejected as a geological epoch—but the idea is still changing how we see the world",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/the-anthropocene-was-rejected-as-a-geological-epoch-but-the-idea-is",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-09T17:20:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-anthropocene-geological-epoch-idea-world.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Anthropocene became part of the zeitgeist after Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen launched the idea in 2000. This is the notion that a crescendo of human impacts has recently propelled Earth out of the relatively stable climatic conditions of the Holocene epoch, during which human civilization developed and flourished, to produce a new kind of planet.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}