Pyrocene

English

Etymology

From pyro- +‎ -cene, coined by Stephen Pyne.

Proper noun

Pyrocene (uncountable)

  1. The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires.
    • 2020 January 3, Matt Simon, “Australia Is Blazing Into the Pyrocene—the Age of Fire”, in Wired:
      The supercharged blazes of the Pyrocene are putting millions upon millions of people around the world directly at risk, and even larger populations indirectly at risk with smoke.
    • 2021 August 28, Graham Lawton, “The dawn of the pyrocene”, in New Scientist, page 24:
      But be warned: the full, hellish fury of the pyrocene has yet to arrive.
    • 2021 November, Dale G. Nimmo; Alexandra J. R. Carthey; Chris J. Jolly; Daniel T. Blumstein, “Welcome to the Pyrocene: Animal survival in the age of the megafire”, in Global Change Biology, volume 27, number 22:
      The insights gained by such research will be essential to manage animal populations in the Pyrocene.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pyrocene.
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