What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Bob Carter, Greenhouse Warming, and One Alarmed Palaeontologist
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI met Bob Carter after one of my fossil-collecting mates, Duncan McLeod, came across some shell fossils in a ‘marl pit’ on …
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Climate & Earth Systems
How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …
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Did Queensland Rainforest Spread when Cultural Burning Stopped?
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole“This is the Giant Stinger tree – avoid it”. Work place health and safety now out of the way, I could then …
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Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Australia’s Black Thursday Fires 1851 – how big and why?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHave you noticed? Despite Australia’s on-going fire disaster, there are no shortage of reports telling us to … relax – it’s nothing …
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What happens when a seal swallows a lump of limestone? *** The broad theme of my back-packing trip last year was to …
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Do we have a submerged ‘Doggerland‘ in New Zealand? In 1950 a boat, the HMNZS ‘Lachlan’ dredged a sample of “lignite” from …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
A Nail up the Nose, and another take on Monotheism
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleYou’d have to really dislike someone to bash a nail up their nose. The day before Wanaka’s Alchemy Cafe closed because of …
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The weather around Wanaka, and the broader Otago Lakes area of New Zealand has gone slightly biblical. New Zealand’s National Institute of …