20 March 2024, nature.com: It’s final: the Anthropocene is not an epoch, despite protest over vote. Governing body upholds earlier decision by geoscientists amid drama, backup Citat: "...A high-profile battle over whether to designate the ‘Anthropocene’ as a new geological epoch has come to an end. On 20 March, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) — the final arbiter in the matter — announced that it is upholding a decision made earlier this month by a group of geoscientists. That group voted on 4 March to reject a proposal that would have established the current era, in which humans are altering the planet, as a formal epoch in Earth’s geological timetable...The IUGS decision effectively terminates a dramatic challenge to that earlier vote: the chair and a vice-chair of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), which held the vote, said that it was illegitimate..."
20 March 2024, nature.com: It’s final: the Anthropocene is not an epoch, despite protest over vote. Governing body upholds earlier decision by geoscientists amid drama, backup Citat: "...A high-profile battle over whether to designate the ‘Anthropocene’ as a new geological epoch has come to an end. On 20 March, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) — the final arbiter in the matter — announced that it is upholding a decision made earlier this month by a group of geoscientists. That group voted on 4 March to reject a proposal that would have established the current era, in which humans are altering the planet, as a formal epoch in Earth’s geological timetable...The IUGS decision effectively terminates a dramatic challenge to that earlier vote: the chair and a vice-chair of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS), which held the vote, said that it was illegitimate..."