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FRI, 2 OCT · 93 ITEMS
Nature, Phys.org · Science & Medicine
This update covers a formal challenge to the 2024 vote that rejected the declaration of the as a new geological epoch. Researchers are now alleging that the voting process violated the subcommission’s own procedural rules, including that the evaluating body could not properly review comments or make revisions, and that the leadership may have improperly influenced the outcome. The controversy centers on whether the decision was driven by science or by internal politics at the International Union of Geological Sciences.
The claim sits very close to its primary source: the Nature article (10.1038/d41586-026-03118-8) — a primary-source-level reporting piece from a top science journal that likely cites the specific procedural challenge and the researchers who filed it. The live search also surfaces a Phys.org report from hours ago covering the same allegations, and earlier 2024 Guardian and El País articles detailing the original vote controversy, adding credibility and context.
Genuinely new: this wave of reporting appears from 6 hours ago (Phys.org) and from Nature's current issue, building on but updating a story that was first widely reported in March 2024.
We covered the original, deeply disputed vote in our 2024 coverage, when the subcommission voted against formalizing the Anthropocene as an epoch and critics immediately claimed the process broke its own rules — that earlier chapter now has a new procedural challenge filing, reported today.