{"id":24127,"date":"2018-12-03T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24127"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:24:49","slug":"lake-in-canada-could-mark-the-beginning-of-human-influenced-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24127","title":{"rendered":"Lake in Canada could mark the beginning of human-influenced age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.3101045296\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/canada.html\">Canada<\/a>&#8216;s Crawford Lake near Toronto may play a crucial part in determining the march of geological time and what might be done about human effect on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Brock University hope Crawford Lake\u2019s well-preserved sediment could be the definitive marker that can be used to show the planet has entered a new geological time period.<\/p>\n<p>Earth scientists who specialise in dating geological time are looking for compelling proof that we are indeed in the early years of the Anthropocene or the human-influenced age.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Daniel Lak reports from Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Crawford Lake near Toronto may play a crucial part in determining the march of geological time and what might be done about human effect on the planet. Researchers from Brock University hope Crawford Lake\u2019s well-preserved sediment could be the definitive marker that can be used to show the planet has entered a new geological&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}