We’re having a big impact on the planet. But what marks will we leave behind in deep time?
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Giant meteorite impacts may have created the land we live on
Humanity’s remarkable powers of comprehension can be aggrandising, but ultimately they demand a sense of humility.
Ancient blobs deep inside the Earth gather together and break apart like continents, according to new research.
Birds have always been charged with carrying the burden of our feelings, writes Delia Falconer. Yet we’ve never treated these inscrutable, vivacious companions particularly well.
Trees seeded after the end of the last ice age, which survived the ruptures of invasion and industry, have re-emerged as art.
The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.
Historical perspective can offer much in this time of ecological crisis,. Many historians are reinventing their traditional scales of space and time to tell different kinds of stories that recognise the unruly power of nature.
A clock designed to work for 10 millennia is being built – but what is the point of it?
Make that winter dram an intellectual one.
Over the past half century, Australia has experienced a ‘time revolution’ with Indigenous history pushed back into the dizzying expanse of deep time. The latest discovery reminds us that science, like history, is an ongoing inquiry.
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Lecturer, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH), University of Wollongong
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ARC Laureate Fellow, Monash University, Director of Global Encounters Program., Monash University
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies, Director of the UCL Warning Research Centre, UCL
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Head of English & Writing, Falmouth University
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Research Fellow, The Open University
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Research Fellow, Brunel University London
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Associate Professor in Medieval Archaeology, University of Reading
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Executive Officer, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Curtin University
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