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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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Earth
Charcoal stored in preserved guano helps recreate region’s fire history
A view from below of a swarm of bats hanging from the ceiling of a rocky cave. One of them is yawning with its mouth wide open. Credit: R. Andrew King/USFWS, Public Domain As wildfires increase in frequency and intensity in many parts of the world, scientists are looking to the past to better understand when and where fires occurred.…
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