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Teenager Gout Gout set a new Australian record in the men's 200m with 20.02 seconds at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, surpassing previous benchmarks and drawing comparisons to Usain Bolt, as he prepares for the upcoming World Championships in Tokyo.
Scientists have concluded that human activities have propelled the Earth out of the stability of the Holocene epoch and into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This proposed epoch, characterized by humanity's enormous impact on the planet, marks a dramatic escalation in various indicators of human influence, such as greenhouse gas concentrations, microplastic pollution, invasive species, and radioactive traces from atomic bomb testing. The exact location of the "golden spike," a geological repository that exemplifies the Anthropocene epoch, will be announced soon. However, the formal acceptance of the Anthropocene by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences is still uncertain, as some scientists argue that it does not meet the technical criteria for inclusion in the official geological timeline.
Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada, is being considered as the "golden spike" or formal starting point of a new epoch called the Anthropocene. The lake has a unique combination of attributes that make it a bellwether of global change, including an upper layer of water and a cold, dark deeper layer under which sediment is perfectly preserved. By examining the sediment, researchers can trace telltale signs of human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels and the rise of acid rain. The International Commission on Stratigraphy will decide in months which of various candidates around the world gets the "golden spike" designation.