Vast, and unprecedented, bushfires swept across the Australian continent in 2019/2020 signalling a traumatic transition into the Anthropocene. As global heating and other dimensions of this new epoch transform our physical and emotional environments, how might museums empower people to face, accept ...
The Australian 2019/2020 bushfire season was one of the worst in recent times in the world. The season started in early November 2019 in New South Wales, and gradually progressed in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. Thousands of firefighters and ...
The 2019/2020 bushfire season was one of the most devasting to occur in Australia. Between October 2019 and February 2020, almost 13 million hectares of land were burned in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. The last fires were extinguished in February 2020, however the damag...
The Australian bushfires that raged during the 2019–2020 summer emitted a staggering amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Estimates suggest that approximately 715 million tonnes were released, which isroughly equivalentto the greenhouse gas...
The Australian bushfires that raged during the 2019–2020 summer emitted a staggering amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Estimates suggest that approximately 715 million tonnes were released, which isroughly equivalentto the greenhouse ...
Prior to FFDI observations beginning in 1950, we compared the LDsss FFDI mean reconstruction with historical records of major documented fire events (e.g. Bushfire inquiry documents65), local archives that extended back 2000-years within the reconstruction region (Club Lake44 and Yarrangobilly Cav...
"We're waiting for it to rain so we can go back home," said the young farmer. A doll lies on the field where a farmhouse was burnt by bushfires near Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Nov. 10, 2019. (Xinhua/Bai Xuefei) Now should be the busy tourist season for the coastal ...
1ustralia has always had bushfires, but in2019 it had an early start to the bushfireseason. Its record-setting bushfire seasonwaswith no sign of a break. The country hasbeen going through a very long period without rain.Plants and trees everywhere are very 2, and burneasily.There are lots...
[12] Lisa Cox. “Australian power stations among world’s worst for toxic air pollution”.The Guardian, August 19, 2019. [13] BBC. “Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfire crisis”. BBC website, January 31, 2020.
"The other key factor at play is that Australia's climate has warmed by more than a degree since 1910, which means very warm years like 2019 are now more likely to occur." But as well as bushfires and extreme heat, in some parts of Australia there was another danger -- flooding. ...