A group of scientists said Tuesday the best evidence for humanity’s overwhelming impact on the planet could be found at Crawford Lake in Milton, Ontario. The lake’s finely layered sediments ...

Scientists conduct core sampling at Crawford Lake on April 12 in Milton, Ontario. The layers of sediment from the lake hold centuries of data — including regarding the human influence on the ...

Scientists have picked the bottom of Crawford Lake in Ontario as the "golden spike" to mark the start of a new proposed geological epoch — the Anthropocene. The announcement was made at a media ...

On Tuesday, the scientists announced the geological site — Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada — that best captures the geological impact of the Anthropocene, according to their research.

Crawford Lake Conservation Area Ontario, Canada. Source - Laslovarga, CC SA 3.0. Crawford Lake Conservation Area Ontario, Canada. Source - Laslovarga, CC SA 3.0. Crawford Lake, in Milton ...

The first person to pull a sediment core out of Lake Crawford was John (Jock) McAndrews, now 90, a paleoecologist and curator at the Royal Ontario Museum who began investigating the lake in the ...

Just what is so special about Crawford Lake in Milton, Ont.? And what, if anything, can it teach us about how we interact with our environments? When I heard that Crawford Lake in southern Ontario ...

A scientific panel has picked Crawford Lake, Ontario, to represent the Anthropocene, a proposed, and hotly contested, new chapter in geologic time. By Raymond Zhong For almost 15 years ...

Out of 12 locations around the world, Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada, has been selected as the site that would mark the official beginning of the Anthropocene, a proposed geologic epoch starting ...

a professor of earth sciences at Brock University in Ontario, led the research group. Welcome. FRANCINE MCCARTHY: Happy to be here. FLORIDO: So first, what does this lake, Crawford Lake ...