Increasing dry lightning strikes leaving Tasmania's wilderness areas at greater risk of fire, researcher says
As Tasmania battles more than a dozen fires sparked by a band of dry lightning strikes, some in high-value wilderness areas, ...
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Research confirms that ancient Tasmania was not a 'wilderness,' but an indigenous cultural landscape
This contrast underscores the unique reduction in Tasmanian rainforest coverage during the Holocene, which is likely attributable to Indigenous fire management practices." The authors emphasized ...
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How Aerial Activists Are Protecting The Last Of Tasmania’s Old Growth
Except Middendorf was in his portaledge—a hanging cot of his design—100 feet off the ground in a 300-year-old eucalypt in Tasmania’s Tarkine rainforest. It was just another night in an ...
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Tropical plants discovered in Tasmania's ancient Polar Forest
New remains of a 53-million-year-old polar forest have been unearthed near Macquarie Harbor in western Tasmania, unveiling previously unknown ancestral origins of rainforest plants in the southern ...
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Severe thunderstorms forecast for parts of Tasmania: What you need to know
Tasmania SES urges the community to prepare and stay informed with potentially heavy rainfall and flash flooding forecast across parts of Tasmania on January 12. Northern Tasmania born and bred ...
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Tasmania set for cool change and rain following major weekend fires
Tasmania is set for a cool change this week after the state was hit with several fires on January 18 and 19. Regional council reporter and videographer at The Examiner. Contact me at aaron.smith@ ...
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KS3 / GCSE Geography: Kelp reforestation in Tasmania
Giant kelp is one of the fastest-growing plants on the planet, it can capture carbon more quickly than a rainforest. However, the giant kelp in Tasmania is struggling. Almost all of it has died ...