Scientists designate Canadian lake as ground-zero for the Anthropocene, Earth’s new epoch

Yay!

Layered sediment at the bottom of Lake Crawford – laced with microplastics, fly-ash spread by burning oil and coal, and the detritus of nuclear bomb explosions – is the single best repository of evidence

Oh, it’s a bad thing. The lake is so covered in man-made garbage it’s being used as evidence that we should classify a new “epoch” on earth’s timeline defined by everything being covered in waste products produced by humans.

I grew up near Crawford Lake. I remember there being a little visitors centre with these horrific looking jars of preserved lamprey eels that I guess they fished out of the lake. As I recall, the lake is special because it’s particularly deep and stagnant. Particulate matter settles on the bottom and remains undisturbed for thousands of years.