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 climate-driven wildfires.Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change
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