Sarah Kaplan
@sarahkaplan48 · Washington, D.C. · joined 03 Feb 2011
Climate reporter @washingtonpost, steward @postguild. I love all the planets but I write about how we can save this one. She/her. sarah.kaplan@washpost.com
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Today in, "every story is actually a climate change story."
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I got to put my planetary science nerd hat back on for this weekend's edition of The 7 and it was a delight. Thanks to everyone who sent questions about why it's worth exploring the moon! https://t.co/925Hx6tR1E https://t.co/SRut0gXh1z
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It's been a while since I covered space, but tonight's Artemis II launch prompted me to re-read this ode to the Moon I wrote for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.
In dark times, it's nice to be reminded of what a wondrous universe we inhabit.
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@sarahkaplan48 As we grapple with water scarcity and environmental degradation, discoveries like this serve as a wake-up call for the need for responsible water management. It’s a reminder that our actions have long-term consequences on the planet. #WaterCrisis
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Thanks also to our stellar editors @Goldfarb @amandavoisard @monicaulmanu @JoeMoore1984 @jafarrell17 and @adrienne_dunn
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This story would not exist without @Ducroquet's graphics brilliance, Bonnie Jo Mount's incredible photojournalism, the design genius of @tobefrankj and @_emilywright_ and the wonderful, indefatigable guidance of my editor @katiezez
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It's a reminder that the Anthropocene can be an age of human agency as well as one of human culpability. People still have the power to shape the story that gets recorded in Crawford Lake's sediments over the next thousand years.
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Some scientists say these changes show we've entered "the Anthropocene" -- a chapter in geologic history where human actions have irrevocably altered the climate and chemistry of the Earth.
Crawford Lake is one of the top candidates to become its official starting point.
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But Francine McCarthy, one of the leaders of the Crawford Lake research, says the lake also shows that people are capable of positive change. Alongside evidence of carbon emissions and species extinctions, it records the effects of nuclear test bans and pollution controls.
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Crawford Lake is like nowhere else on the planet. Its unique chemistry allows it to capture signs of environmental change in layers of sediment that get deposited year after year on the lake bottom.
It's like a diary of the Earth.
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Digging into the lake's sediments, scientists have uncovered a record spanning the entire last millennium. It tells a story of Indigenous villagers. European colonizers, loggers and industrialists gradually transforming the environment of southern Ontario.
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But around 1950, scientists say, the Crawford Lake record reflects a fundamental shift in the way humans affect the world around them. Impacts start to accelerate. Pollution piles up. The lake becomes a bellwether of change around the whole world.
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Decades ago, scientists started asking whether humans had changed the planet enough to start a new geologic epoch: the Anthropocene.
Now, a humble lake in Canada may hold proof of that change -- and end up redefining our history of the Earth.
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
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What the audience does
Likes60.1%226 in total
Reposts21.0%79 in total
Replies9.0%34 in total
Quotes4.5%17 in total
Bookmarks5.3%20 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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