I. General Resources

Anthropocene Working Group The pages of the Working Group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, which voted to adopt the Anthropocene as a new chronostratigraphic unit in 2019 and is now developing a proposal to formalize the Anthropocene as a defined geological unit within the Geological Time Scale.

Anthropocene (journal) An interdisciplinary academic journal Anthropocene, founded in 2013.

The Anthropocene Review (journal) Another academic, transdisciplinary journal, founded in 2014.

Elementa (journal). The third academic journal devoted to the Anthropocene currently in publication. Transdisciplinary and open access

Anthropocene (magazine) This magazine, focused on sustainability solutions, is a publication of Future Earth, a global science consortium, the successor organization (since 2014) of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), which included the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, through which Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer published the first paper naming the “Anthropocene” epoch.

Ecocene. Cappadocia University Journal of the Environmental Humanities. The inaugural June 2020 issue of this open-access EH journal is devoted to EH responses to the alliance of world scientists’ warnings to humanity about the climate crisis.

Archaeosphere. Matt Edgeworth’s archaeological concept of the archaeosphere is connected to (but not dependent on) the anthropocene discussion. You’ll find a YouTube recording of a 2015 lecture here.

Geologic Timescale. v.5.0 of the Geologic Society of America’s timescale (2018)

USGS Geologic Timescale fact sheet 2018. Discussion and bibliography on the GT from the US Geologic Society with a nod to the Anthropocene debate.

II. Global Heating & IPCC Reports

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report 2021. Find the IPCC working group’s latest assessment report, as well as other resources, here.

IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C.

Alliance of World Scientists. Find the warning articles published by the alliance of world scientists since 2018 on this site, maintained at the College of Forestry at Oregon State University.

III. Gaia

The Gaia Hypothesis Lynn Margulis’ presentation to NASA of her and James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis.

James Lovelock homepage James Lovelock’s pages, where you’ll find some of his scientific papers on the Gaia theory available for free download.

IV. (Anti-)Anthropocene Theorists

Bruno Latour’s website is extensive. You’ll find open access publications, and a series of lectures, including Inside – A Performance Lecture, among other topics.

Several of Latour’s Gifford lectures that form the basis of his book Facing Gaia are accessible on YouTube: Lecture 1: “Once Out of Nature” – Natural Religion as a Pleonasm. Lecture 2: A Shift in Agency – with Apologies to David Hume. Lecture 3: The Puzzling Face of a Secular Gaia. Lecture 4: The Anthropocene and the Destruction of the Image of the Globe. Lecture 5: War of the Worlds: Humans Against Earthbound. Lecture 6: Inside the “Planetary Boundaries”: Gaia’s Estate.

Donna Haraway’s site at UC Santa Cruz offers links to some of her lectures.

V. Indigenous Activism & Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) 

Idle No More. The pages of the Canadian indigenous-led Idle No More movement offer information about campaigns and actions to protect land, water, and sky, as well as further resources and educational material.

TEK and Western Science. This page of the National Park Service provides a series of links to articles and panel discussions about the relationship of traditional ecological knowledge and western ecological science.

Robin Wall Kimmerer. Kimmerer’s pages include links to a series of YouTube talks.

VI. Anthropocene Art & Representation

Crochet Coral Reef Christine and Margaret Werthheim’s crochet coral reef project. See also Colleen Marzec’s short piece on the Smithsonian exhibit of the project, and images of the exhibit at the NYC Museum of Art and Design.

The first major museum exhibition on the Anthropocene, “Welcome to the Anthropocene. The Earth in Our Hands,” was on view at the Deusches Museum in Munich, Germany from December 2014 to September 2016.

X-Ray micro CT of a shelled pteropod.

VII. Chantal Bilodeau

See Bilodeau’s homepage for more information about here work and the plays in the Arctic Cycle.

The pages originally dedicated to the Arctic Cycle are now the dedicated online space for the Arts and Climate Initiative founded by Bilodeau.

VIII. Evelyn Reilly

Reilly’s homepage includes links to her essays and poems available online.