Best Australian Science Writing 2021, Lauren Fuge
It's a warm winter’s morning and Lauren Fuge is standing in a bone-dry creek bed at the precipice of deep time - winner, Best Australian Science Writing 2021.
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It's a warm winter’s morning and Lauren Fuge is standing in a bone-dry creek bed at the precipice of deep time - winner, Best Australian Science Writing 2021.
Our new research published in Nature, shows how tectonic plates, volcanoes, eroding mountains and seabed sediment have controlled Earth's climate in the geological past.
Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two surprisingly active blobs the size of continents.
Earth’s interior 80 million years ago with hot structures in yellow to red (darker is shallower) and cold structures in blue (darker is deeper). Ömer Bodur/Nature Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents.