Crawford Lake in Ontario, one of the candidate sites to mark the dawn of the Anthropocene Shutterstock / SF photo
A long-running effort to declare that the global impact of聽humans is enough to establish a聽new geological epoch will come聽to a head this year聽鈥 when a聽decision is made on the best site to聽officially mark the beginning of聽the Anthropocene.
The past 11,650 or so years form a geological unit of time known as聽the Holocene, considered a climatically benign epoch in the planet鈥檚 history that allowed civilisation to flourish.
But some scientists think there聽is…
Article amended on 27 January 2022
We clarified Erle Ellis鈥檚 university affiliation
Article amended on 2 February 2022
We updated the picture of Lake Crawford
