There is now considerable evidence that, as the climate continues to warm,\nbushfires are becoming more common and severe, particularly in regions such as southeastern\nAustralia. The extraordinary Australian bushfires over the summer of 2019/2020\nresulted in the burning of habitats such as ...
The Black Summer bushfires were among the worst in Australian history, burning more than 24 million hectares of land and destroying thousands of buildings. Bhiamie Williamson, lead author of the study, said the findings highlighted the lack of disaster planning focused on Indigenous Australians. "T...
After the Black Summer bushfires in Australia: How ‘REConstruct’ by REC Group helped recovery Munich, Germany Following the devastating bushfires that tore through Australia in the ‘Black Summer’ of 2019-2020, REC Group, an international pioneering solar energy company headquartered in Norway...
SYDNEY, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Bird populations in Australian rainforests have failed to rebound from the bushfires that tore through large swathes of the nation more than two years ago, according to a new study. The report, published in Global Ecology and Conservation and released on Thursday,...
The most recent bushfire season in Australia will go down in the country’s history. It became known as the Black Summer long before the fires were out, and this became the title of Abbott’s series. The black summer left behind charred animals with faces distorted by pain, cars that loo...
Successive state and federal governments had been warned about the worsening of bushfire conditions due to climate change, but failed to act to adequately reduce the threat. It’s a matter of public record that both major political parties receive significant donations from, and are heavily lobbie...
Over one million tons of smoke particles were released into the atmosphere during the Black Summer fires and travelled 35 kilometres above the Earth’s surface. This release is comparable to a volcanic eruption and changes in the stratosphere were noticed shortly ...
NASA Studies the Impact of Fire-induced Clouds and Smoke Plumes from the Bushfires in Australia, 19th February 2020 Downloaded from: https://disasters.nasa.gov/australia-fires-2020/nasa-studies-impact-fire-induced-clouds-and-smoke-plumes-bushfires-australia on 13/7/2020 (2020) Google Scholar Nu...
Australia’s record-breaking 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather resulted from a combination of natural and anthropogenic climate factors, but the full range of natural variability in fire weather is unknown. We reconstruct southeast Australian fire weathe
(2022b) used ecological knowledge and expert opinion to estimate post-fire population sizes for a large number of species after the Black Summer wildfires. Legge et al. (2022b, Table S2.2) included the following estimates of population decline (relative to pre-fire levels) in the yellow-...