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 ...
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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 ...
Researchers have started an attribution study to determine how much global warming is to blame for the blazes that have ravaged the continent.
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’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, these conditions brought about by climate change have exacerbated them to catastro...
Australia is currently being ravaged by bushfires, once again. Donate to these organizations that are working to help victims and put out the fires.
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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 ...