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 ...
How you and Incineration Ceremony Recordings can make a difference together. We hope to help Australian bushfire victims by donating 100% of our sales to Animals Australia, a non-profit organization.
“But catastrophic megafires are largely driven by weather and drought conditions. However, reducing fuel loads is certainly an important part of authorities’ bushfire management strategies.” Restoring areas impacted by fire will also require help from the Canberra community. People who wish to help...
This spans the period before, during and after the recent bushfires, providing a unique opportunity to track their impact. We are still analyzing results, but it's already clear the combination of bushfire ash followed by rainfall led to large increases in microalgae (phytoplankton) in estuaries,...
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 ...
Devastating bushfires have beenspreading across Australiafor 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 thanhalf a billion wild animalshave perished in the flames — a ...
“We really couldn’t get our online lessons out to every school that we do without Brightcove,” concludes Grimmer. “They are our connection to dispersing our content to schools near and far all over Australia.” With Brightcove’s help, AES is fulfilling its mission to get Auslan in eve...
[68] found that people living in bushfire prone areas are unlikely to accept that the safest plan is to leave early well before a bushfire is imminent due to a strong desire to stay and defend. McLennan et al. therefore recommend ‘(a) motivating householders intending to stay and defend ...
Hi everyone. Like you, I want to support the fight against the bushfires here in Australia. My family and I are contributing a million dollars. Hopefully you guys can chip in too. Every penny counts so whatever you can muster up is greatly appreciated. In my bio I’ve added ...
aIn this paper, we analyse the intersection between six academic theories about ‘catastrophic failure’ and journalistic reportage about disasters. What can these theories tell us about Black Saturday and possible causal and risk factors for the bushfires? How well are these theories understood by ...