Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Nature / Science / Nature Biotechnology at 07 Oct, 00:00 UTC

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11097-z A 1,000-year lake-sediment record from southeastern Australia shows that colonial disruption of Indigenous cultural burning transformed open woodland into dense, flammable forest, priming the landscape for today’s…

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• T1Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use changeNature / Science / Nature Biotechnology07 Oct, 00:00