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The Ontario Headwaters Institute is a registered charity working to preserve and protect Ontario’s headwaters through research, education, and best practices.
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In December, we launched an OHI YouTube Channel and began posting a series of Teacher Supports to help school relate to watersheds and headwaters. Head to Education to see both.
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Slipping into the Anthropocene
Most people seem preoccupied with transitioning into fall: getting back to normal routines while the daylight dwindles.
Those of us who obsess about ecology see more ominous shadows. Geologists appear to have reached a consensus that human impacts on Earth are so profound that we are passing from the Holocene into the Anthropocene. The only thing left to debate appears to be when it started, based on the prolific markers being left in the geological record by either carbon, plastic, radio-nuclides, or the domestic chicken.
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