Samantha Gash is an ultramarathoner with an intense training schedule — but, in the last few months, she’s had some serious disruptions to her runs. Gash lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has seen the effects of the continent-wide fire crisis firsthand. So far, the bushfires have kill...
While Australian communities will always be affected by the impacts of bushfires, there is an element of human involvement that makes at least some bushfires avoidable. In Australia more bushfires are started by deliberate lighting than are caused by lightning or other natural sources. This ...
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. Exposu...
Australia’s Black Summer Bushfires in 2019-2020 took a terrible toll in terms of lives and livelihoods. 33 people were killed. The fires burned more than 3,000 houses and 17 million hectares of land, and also caused the death of over one billion animals. Many communities lost all power ...
Australia is currently being ravaged by bushfires, once again. Donate to these organizations that are working to help victims and put out the fires.
Oysters are filter feeders, extracting nutrients from the water, so that makes them very susceptible to water pollution such as that from bushfires.
There is some evidence that fire can reduce an animal’s fitness by reducing habitat suitability. A study in grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalusTermminck, 1825) following bushfires in eastern Australia showed that a reduction in available foraging habitats was associated with substantially...
SEE ALSO: Australia just had its hottest day ever... two days in a row Australia’s bushfires have been fuelled by lack of rain, strong winds, and record-breaking heat, turning this fire season into Australia’s worst on record. Though the country experiences some bushfires every year,...
What areas are affected? Fires are raging in every state, with some of the greatest conflagrations in NSW and Victoria. The Gospers Mountains fires, in NSW, have burned over half a million hectares, and scientists suggest it could bethe largest single-ignition point fire in Australia's histo...
Devastating bushfires have been spreading across Australia for months, and they show no signs of slowing down. Millions of acres have burned, destroying about 2,000 homes and killing at least 25 people. It is estimated that more than half a billion wild animals have perished in the flames ...