We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000-year-old sediment in Sydney lakes

  • Written by: Alexander Francke, Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000-year-old sediment in Sydney lakesLake Couridjah, Thirlmere Lakes National Park in New South WalesShutterstock

Plants capture around half the carbon we emit by burning fossil fuels, making them a crucial part of mitigating climate change. But carbon is often released back into the atmosphere when plants die, decompose and eventually turn into dirt.

Carbon is only permanently removed...

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