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A Lake Paves the Way for Defining the Anthropocene

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 25 August 202325 August 2023

Scientists recently voted to designate Crawford Lake, a small body of water in southern Canada, as the reference site of the “Age of Man.”

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IAEA Affirms Japan’s Fukushima-Related Radioactivity Monitoring

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