The term "Anthropocene" occupies a place in many research disciplines.

In this podcast, Corinne M. Flick talks with Jürgen Renn, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Robert Schlögl, chemist and Director of the Fritz Haber Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, about whether humans have ushered in a new geological era. Their focus is on the term "Anthropocene," the current state of the "Anthropocene," and the related challenges faced in science.