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Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Adelaide University

Lashmars Lagoon, Kangaroo Island. Quentin Chester

May 8, 2026

Lake mud reveals 7,000 years of Kangaroo Island’s complex fire history

Haidee Cadd, University of Wollongong; Jonathan Tyler, Adelaide University , and Lucinda Duxbury, University of Tasmania

Without First Nations people, Kangaroo Island has burned widely over the past 2,000 years as the climate got drier.

Climate change may have led to drought and famine-induced conflict in ancient Eastern Mediterranean civilisations, the study found. Verity Cridland

August 14, 2013

Climate change hastened ancient civilisations’ collapse: study

Kosta Pandos, The Conversation and Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation

Climate change sparked the political and economic turmoil that hastened the collapse of formerly prosperous civilisations in regions such as Greece and Syria towards the end of the 13th century BC, a new…

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