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Antarctica Once Had Wildfires: Tiny Charcoal Fragments Reveal a Burning Forest Near the South Pole

Forest fires and Antarctica are hard to picture together. Today the continent lies under a thick sheet of ice, and the cold preserves almost everything that falls on it. Around 90 million years ago, in the Cretaceous (the last period of the age of dinosaurs), the scene was very different. The planet was going through […]

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