It is often said that bushfires are a fact of life in Australia. 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 ...
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...
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 ...
The Dunn’s Road fire burns pine trees near Maragle, New South Wales, on 10 January. Credit: Matthew Abbott/New York Times/Redux/eyevineOn 1 January, the air in Canberra was the worst of any city in the world. With unprecedented bush fires raging nearby, a thick blanket of smoke ...
Contexts of sustainable development risk in climate change and anthropogenic-induced bushfire in Nigeria 2024, Scientific African Show abstract Post-fire soil greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal Scots pine forests–Are they affected by surface fires with different severities? 2024, Agricultural and Forest Met...
Without action on climate change, extreme weather events such as the Black Summer bushfires are likely to become more common. The recent COP26 Conference in Glasgow made clear how urgent the situation is. Atmospheric CO2 continues to rise fast. Even with the best-case scenario – with full im...
Australia is currently being ravaged by bushfires, once again. Donate to these organizations that are working to help victims and put out the fires.
Re: How's the weather? rsv1cox Thu Sep 13, 2018 6:54 am Yes, my grandson and Rusty live in what is predicted to be ground zero (rain) for this hurricane. My grandson lived in Colorado most of his life and has never seen a hurricane. He's in for an education I believe. Hoping...
Public health recommendations during smoke events tend to provide general advice, and don't often include advice specifically geared at children. But children are not just little adults. They areuniquely vulnerabletoenvironmental hazardssuch as bushfire smoke for a number of reasons. Different physiol...
Oysters are filter feeders, extracting nutrients from the water, so that makes them very susceptible to water pollution such as that from bushfires. We are trying to understand how ash from the 2019-20 bushfires has affected the waterways andoysterfarms of New South Wales. Their production is ...