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Publications

Full list of staff publications via Google Scholar.

Books and articles

• Journalist Christian Schwaegerl published an article in the popular magazine Yale E360 about the current voting process of the Anthropocene working group and associated research around defining a new geological Epoch. Read the  article.  

Blogs

•  (The Conversation, 2023)
•  (The Conversation, 2023)
•  (The Conversation, 2018)

Media

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• Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes (2023)
• Our environment over a billion years: travel through time into Leicester’s deep past (2023)
• Drying Congo peatlands threaten to accelerate climate change (2022)
• Urgent action required to protect world’s coral reefs from disappearing within three decades, warn experts (2022)
• The Cosmic Oasis: Leicester environment experts explore Earth’s biosphere in new popular science book (2022)
• Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene (2022)
• Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form (2022)
• Fossil study sheds light on ancient water-to-land transition (2021)
• Analysis of coral reveals long-term climate impact in Southeast Asia (2020)
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ research receives international recognition - The Secret History of our Evolution (2019)
• Mollusc invaders in the Thames – a mark of the Anthropocene (2019)
• The curse of zombie fossils (2018)
• Study into infested fossil worms shows ancient examples of symbiosis (2017)
• Leicester geologists publish new book on exquisitely preserved fossil animals from 500 million years ago (2017)
• Discovery sheds light on how vertebrates see (2016)

Professor Mark Williams appointed as the Palaeontological Association Exceptional Lecturer for 2022/23.

Anthropocene in various media

• January 2023: ARTE TV interview with M. Williams, for the Anthropocene documentary to air in 2024, also featuring J. Zinke, J. Zalaziewics, C. Waters, S. Himson
• January 2023: Canadian National Radio TV interview with M. Williams and J. Zinke on Anthropocene research
• The public Japan Broadcasting Corporation is working on a quite ambitious documentary series about the Anthropocene and will feature several researchers from the Centre. Currently, the material is being collected.

Anthropocene Working Group media and outreach events at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (Germany) May 2022: