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World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania
2016-01-27 04:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A global tragedy is unfolding in Tasmania. World heritage forests are burning; 1,000-year-old trees and the hoary peat beneath are reduced to char. Fires have already taken stands of king billy and pencil pine the last remaining fragments of an ecosystem that once spread across the supercontinent of Gondwana. Pockets of Australias only winter deciduous tree, the beloved nothofagus whose direct kin shade the sides of the South American Andes are now just a wind change away from eternity....
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