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Ethan James

Ice cores point to grim picture of future bushfire risk

A helicopter tackles a bushfire in Victoria's East Gippsland region during the Black Summer blazes. (HANDOUT/STATE GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA)

Australia could face bushfire conditions worse than the deadly Black Summer blazes, according to scientists who have studied thousand-year-old Antarctic ice cores. 

Sea salt particles preserved in the Law Dome core from East Antarctica were used to reconstruct bushfire weather patterns in southeast Australia over the past 2000 years.

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