A team of scientists is recommending to mark the start of a new geological epoch defined by how humans have impacted the Earth with a ‘golden spike’ in the pristine Crawford Lake outside Toronto in Canada. They say the start of the human epoch — known as the Anthropocene — is sometime between 1950 and 1954…
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Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s
