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coal

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• 27 June 2026The 270-Million-Year-Old Forest That Turned to CoalHow 270-million-year-old Permian swamps in eastern Australia became the continent's thickest coal seams, locking a vanished Gondwanan forest into rock.
• 25 June 2026The 300-Million-Year-Old Lake That Preserved a Polar ForestHow 300-million-year-old coal seams beneath eastern Australia preserve the only known polar rainforest from the Permian ice age—a forest that grew within 15 degrees of the South Pole.
• 18 June 2026The Coal That Burned for 6,000 Years: New South Wales' Burning MountainHow a smouldering coal seam beneath Mount Wingen in New South Wales has been on fire for 6,000 years, creating one of the world's oldest known natural coal fires.
• 19 May 2026The Fossil Forests That Built Australia's Coal: Tasmania's Lurg HillsHow 280-million-year-old Permian glacial deposits in Tasmania's Lurg Hills preserve fossilised tree trunks that later became coal, recording the moment Australia's ice age gave way to swamp forests.
• 17 May 2026The Lava That Became a Coal Seam: Queensland's Bowen BasinHow 300-million-year-old volcanic ash fell into Permian swamps and became the coal that powers Australia's east coast, preserved in the Bowen Basin.
• 11 May 2026The Coal That Burned for 6,000 Years: The Burning Mountain of WingenBeneath a hill in New South Wales, a coal seam has been smouldering for at least 6,000 years—the oldest known continuously burning coal fire on Earth.