Catastrophic bushfires in eastern Australia have killed at least three people and forced thousands from their homes, with the death toll expected to rise as firefighters struggle towards hard-to-reach communities. In the normally picturesque coastal town of Forster—one among dozens hit along the ea...
We just spent six days at Rosedale. In case you didn’t know, the small hamlet of North Rosedale, New South Wales, was almost wiped out by bushfires on New Years Eve 2019. The road into North Rosedale will be closed for some time and we were not allowed to walk there because trees ...
source, collate, analyze and map information about disaster declarations in NSW between 2004 and 2014 focusing on the commonly recurring and sudden onset types of bushfires, floods and storms mirroring similar studies undertaken in the United States; 2 use the results of (1) to identify patterns...
To compound these difficulties after the bushfires, thousands of Australians in cities andrural communitiesare now unemployed as a result of COVID-19. Particularly for those regions which rely on tourism for their local economy, the bushfires diminished local travel, and now COVID-19 has forcibly...
This season, the bushfires in Australia have burned more than 12. 35 million acres of land. At least 25 people have been killed and 2,000 homes destroyed. According to theBBC,this is the most casualties(伤亡)from wildfires in the country since 2009. The University of Sydney estimates that...
"I think after the 2019-2020 bushfires a whole lot of people right across Australia, including here where we are in northern New South Wales became really conscious of the disruptive force of out-of-control wildfire, and they began to understand some of the thin...
Australia’s bushfires and the effect on airport visibility Fires have ravaged significant portions of Australia in late 2019 and early 2020, and while disruption to flights has been relatively small, the stark situation is a reminder of how critical technology can be.Alex Lovetakes a closer look...
aObserved FFDI (Dowdy et al.28) and 2000+ year (1-2016 CE) FFDI mean reconstruction over the forested east coast and alpine regions of southeast Australia using the LDsss record (hatched area in map inset (g)). Light grey shading represents 95% prediction interval of the FFDI mean rec...
Around 100,000 people were urged to flee five Melbourne suburbs on Monday evening as Australia's spiralling bushfire crisis killed a volunteer firefighter battling a separate blaze in the countryside.
An absolutely astonishing set of bushfires is burning around Australia currently, producing surreal images like those of evacuees fleeing to beaches—or boats—for safety. The situation has been particularly dangerous in Victoria and New South Wales, where fires have surrounded Sydney, choking the ...