Expert Panel: Humans Really Have Started a New Geological Epoch on Earth

By MIKE MCRAE

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In a couple of years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) could have an important decision to make. A working group just voted 29 to 4 in favour of recognising a new modern epoch, and plans to formally make its case to the ICS in the next two years.

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