ANALYSIS: Part 1: The Sixth Extinction and the Anthropocene’s Pleistocene origins

2026-01-26 - 18:54

This is part 1 of a three-part series that traces the origins of the Anthropocene – the current geological epoch that speaks bluntly to humanity’s impact on the environment – and the unfolding ‘Sixth Extinction’, adding to the wave of global megafaunal extinctions that began in what is popularly known as the ‘Ice Age’.