Ancient rock art under threat as Australia gives ‘proposed’ approval to gas plant extension

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Oceania Visual arts Climate change See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! Follow Brisbane, Australia  —  Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by the country’s original inhabitants, including the earliest known depictions of the human face. This open-air display of some of humanity’s oldest works is being slowly erased by industrial pollution from a nearby gas plant, according to scientific studies

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