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Tue 09 Sep 2008Midges provide huge window on past
FOSSILISED RAINFORESTS and the number of midge heads found in lake sediments are giving scientists important clues about how temperatures have changed through history. These in turn may provide important information about how climate change may affect the planet today.
Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from the University of Bristol and colleagues from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington and the Illinois Geological Survey have found "the largest fossil forests in the world".
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