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WEST COAST FOSSIL PARK

There is bewildering clamour about climate change these days. Spoiler alert: it’s true and it’s accelerating, but it’s complicated. Take the Cape West Coast, for example.

Around 10 million years ago it was covered by subtropical lowland forest. Then things started to cool down: the main cause of that was the final separation of South America and Antarctica, which set up a powerful

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