FROM fast local weather change to biodiversity loss, the Anthropocene marks our instances as an age of human-caused planetary disruption. A working group of the Worldwide Fee on Stratigraphy now proposes to extra exactly outline the Anthropocene, a time period originated by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000.
Utilizing the strategies that demark all models in Earth’s official historical past guide, the geologic time scale, the group would outline the Anthropocene as an epoch of geological time beginning exactly in 1950, marked by plutonium isotopes from nuclear weapons fallout within the sediments of Crawford Lake in Canada.
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