Canada’s Crawford Lake proposed to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene
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In 2024, we may enter an entirely new era, as scientific institutions make official decisions on whether human impact on Earth over the past few decades is sufficient to mark a new geological time unit. unknown.
First popularized by meteorologist Paul Crutzen in 2000, the term “Anthropocene” broadly refers to an era in which the Earth has undergone major changes as a result of human activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. Some experts think…
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