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Earth 'entering new age of geological time'The Earth has entered a new age of geological time – the epoch of new man, scientists claim.
By Murray Wardrop
Published: 8:30AM GMT 27 Mar 2010
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/geology/7528264/Earth-entering-new-age-of-geological-time.html
Posted here at CFH by: J.Barreto Silva, on July 8th, 2010
Humans have wrought such vast and unprecedented changes on the planet that we may be ushering in a new period of geological history.
Through pollution, population growth, urbanisation, travel, mining and use of fossil fuels we have altered the planet in ways which will be felt for millions of years, experts believe.
It is feared that the damage mankind has inflicted will lead to the sixth largest mass extinction in Earth’s history with thousands of plants and animals being wiped out.
The new epoch, called the Anthropocene – meaning new man – would be the first period of geological time shaped by the action of a single species.
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