A millennium of evidence reveals colonial roots of Australia’s wildfire vulnerability

Mongabay
Oct 26, 2026, 4:20 am108 ptsTrending
A 1,000-year ecological reconstruction reveals that Australia’s ongoing wildfire crisis stems from the colonial disruption of Indigenous fire management rather than climate change alone, according to a study published in Nature. For more than 800 years prior to British colonization in 1788, the Indigenous…

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