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A newly discovered half-million-year-old layer of volcanic sediment beneath the Aegean Sea rewrites what scientists know about this area’s volcanic history – and potential future hazards.
Indigenous fire management shaped Australian tropical savannas over millennia, until the arrival of Europeans pushed the landscape back into a dangerous, unmanaged state.
80% of carbon on land in stored in soil. Our new research investigated how erosion transports this carbon to the bottom of lakes, where it’ll never be released into the atmosphere.
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Professor of Biogeochemistry, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Petrology and Planetary Geoscience, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Health, The University of Queensland
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Research fellow, Analytical Chemistry, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Marine Geology, The University of Queensland