Climate study linking early Maori fires to Antarctic changes sparks controversy

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Climate study linking early Maori fires to Antarctic changes sparks controversy

Research tying Maori activity 700 years ago to Antarctic changes sparks debate in New Zealand over Indigenous inclusion in scienceDeep in the ice of a remote Antarctic peninsula, a group of researchers found evidence that fires started by early Māori wreaked changes in the atmosphere detectable 7,000km away. In New Zealand, the research sparked a heated controversy of its own – over Indigenous inclusion in scientific enterprise, and what scienti…