Australias
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Environment
Making Australia’s growing cities more sustainable
Peter Newton, James Whitten, Magnus Moglia, Stephen Glackin, The Conversation The way we organize our cities and regions creates problems everywhere. We face difficult and polluting car commuting, a lack of affordable housing, and urban design that creates car dependence and negatively impacts health. For example, lower levels of walkability are associated with higher rates of obesity, hypertension, and cardiovascular…
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Biology
Ancient mud reveals 130,000 years of Australia’s fire history and future solutions to the current fire crisis
The Conversation by Michela Mariani, Anna Florin, Heidi Cudd, Matthew Adley and Simon Connor Flowchart describing the approach used in this study to quantify historical changes in fuels within the shrub layer (ladder fuels). Credit: Science (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adn8668 Intensified land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia about 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to…
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Environment
Limestone and iron reveal Western Australia’s mysterious extreme rains 100,000 years ago
The Conversation by Milo Barham, Andrei Schmutz, John Alan Webb, Kenneth McNamara, Martin Danisik, and Matej Riper Credit: CC0 Public Domain Almost one-sixth of the Earth’s surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with an unfamiliar name: karst. These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic formations dotted with caves and rock towers slowly carved by water over thousands of…
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