landscape
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Environment
Wildfire risk increases as trees reclaim eastern U.S. landscape
Credit: Deep Rajwar on Pexels There are more trees and shrubs in the eastern United States than there were 30 years ago. This growth, driven by processes such as unmanaged forest trees and understory reclamation, is fueling wildfire outbreaks and contributing to changes in fire regimes in the eastern half of the country, according to a new study. Some parts…
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Other Sciences
Research reveals earliest evidence that humans used fire to shape Tasmania’s landscape
Emerald Swamp, Three Hammock Island. Credit: Simon Haberle Some of the first humans to arrive in Tasmania more than 41,000 years ago used fire to shape and manage the landscape, some 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. A British-Australian research team analyzed charcoal and pollen in ancient mud to uncover how Tasmanian indigenous people shaped their surroundings. This is the…
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