New findings from the La Brea Tar Pits in southern California suggest human-caused wildfires in the region, along with a warming climate, led to the loss of most of the area’s large mammals.
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Despite its insidious influence on the climate and our health, coal has a lesser-known positive side to its otherwise dark soul. It has provided us with some stunning fossils.
As carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase, scientists are looking to the past.
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organic Geochemistry, University of Bristol
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton
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Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Curator, La Brea Tar Pits; Adjunct Faculty, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
