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Scientists just declared the dawn of a new, human-influenced epoch [1]

Thanks to all our plastic pollution and nuclear testing, humans have cut short a 11,700-year-old geological epoch known as the Holocene, and have initiated a new, human-influenced epoch called the

Publication Date: 
30/08/2016
Science Alert [2]
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Environment [3], Plastics [4], Scientists [5], Global Warming [6], Nuclear Wastes [7]

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