This retrospective cross-sectional cohort study used routinely collected data from the ED patient information system from one metropolitan Australian ED. Data were obtained for patient presentations during the 2019/2020 Black Summer Bushfire period and a matched period, 2018/2019, one year earlier. ...
Team Firefighters– this team from University of Technology, Sydney is also bringing us a bushfire management/warning system. Team eGreen– amazingly, the third team from University of Canberra brings us a creative way of looking at environmental sustainability – helping consumers understand the envir...
Australia is facing an unprecedented national crisis, as bushfires tear through rural communities across the nation. Since September, at least 25 people have died and more than 2,000 homes have been destroyed. The scale of the threat is immense, and fires continue to burn, with authorities cal...
Officials in Victoria, Australia are pointing at Apple's much-maligned Maps App for causing dangerous inaccuracies in a bushfire information app, saying that problems with the mapping service make it difficult to determine exactly where fires are when alarms are received. TheSydney M...
time and relate how changes in local pollution concentrations are driven by variation in local meteorological conditions, or how the onset of events such as bushfires, heatwaves, or thunderstorms can affect air quality. The project has produced curriculum-aligned lesson plans that use the SWAQ ...
Fire authorities say a bushfire which destroyed at least one home in Victoria’s west over the weekend may have been deliberately lit.https://www.abc.net.au18th Nov 2024 The Country Fire Authority says the blaze near Kadnook could burn for weeks. What’s next? Fire investigators are trying...
CANBERRA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Australian Prime Minister vowed on Wednesday to rule out future crippling power shortages, despite a warning from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) that Australia faces a shortfall in energy in the next five years. ...
"The places that broke records yesterday are already warmer at this time today as they were yesterday." High temperatures are not unusual in Australia during its arid southern hemisphere summer, with bushfires a common occurrence. Butclimate changehas pushed up land and sea temperatures and led ...
First, MyFireWatch is based on satellite data that shows sources of heat. These are usually — but not exclusively — fires, including bushfires and grass fires. Second, the colour system of red, orange and yellow is about time, not severity or danger. ...
Thousands of activists marched in several major cities across Australia on Friday, calling on the government to act on the climate crisis and do more to stop the bushfires that continue to ravage large swathes of the country.