Aboriginal Climate Change

Recent studies seem to indicate that Aborigines in Australia may have actually contributed to a climate change some 50,000 years ago. If proven it would be the first solid evidence that technologically-primitive humans could alter the environment. Daniel Grossman tagged along with one of the scientists researching Wolfe Creek Crater in Australia, which may hold the answers.

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