the north of Western Australia is ripe for bushfires. Many have already begun as evidenced from this satellite pass by NASA's Aqua satellite which acquired this image with the Moderatete Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard it. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS's...
Area of land burned by the 2019/2020 bushfires in Western Australia Number of beef cattle deaths due to the 2019/2020 bushfires in Victoria Financial impact Australian government bushfire relief aid for primary producers as of January 2020 Australian government bushfire relief aid for wildlife...
SYDNEY, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- Lives and homes are under threat as two dangerous bushfires continue to rage in the Aussie state of Western Australia under an extreme summer heatwave. The state's Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) issued on Monday morning a bushfire emergency warn...
This paper draws together observations of the 2019/20 bushfire size, intensity and destructiveness and links the fires to the global nature of the climate crisis and an earlier case study that accurately predicted the fire impacts in southeast coastal Australia. The findings are set out in two ...
Western AustraliaLandTownsWestAN ESTIMATED 72,000 hectares of land has been razed by bushfires that spread through Western Australia's south west in early January.The fire started when lightning struck Dwellingup to the north east of the region, on Wednesday 6th January and quickly spread due to...
Bushfires are currently burning in Australian states includingVictoria,Tasmania,Western AustraliaandSouth Australia. In some areas, fire authorities have warned residents about the presence of smoke. Ad Bushfire smokeis harmful to our health. Tiny particles of ash can lodge deep in the lungs. ...
(A) Map of Australia. Red dot locates Sydney. The States include: New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Tasmania (TAS), South Australia (SA), Western Australia (WA) and Queensland (QLD) as well as the two Territories: The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the Northern Territory ...
Additionally, a very strong positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD, sustained changes in the difference between sea surface temperatures of the tropical western and eastern Indian Ocean [33]) was one of the main influences on Australia's climate during 2019, and contributed to very low rainfall and ...
Australia recently experienced unprecedented bushfires, affecting people's health in many of its major cities and destroying homes and lives.
Australia Felix, as Victoria used to be designated, is in shock and disbelief at the loss of life and property in the bushfires over the weekend- 103 lives lost and still counting. Shock at the sheer numbers; and disbelief, at least sitting here in the north-east suburbs of Melbourne tha...