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 ...
Kids can get worried duringbushfires, and fire emergencies have been linked with a reduction in children'smental health. Stories such as theBirdie's Tree bookscan help children understand these events do pass and people help one another in times of difficulty. Learning more about air pollution ...
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 ...
Many of us will be exposed to a disaster in our lifetime. In the past two years alone, Australians have lived through bushfires,floods,cyclones, and the ongoingCOVID-19 pandemic. It's normal to experience a range of reactions following disaster, such as sadness, anxiety, depression, hyperac...
s direct, first-order impacts on environmental parasites themselves (reviewed in Scasta2015), without necessarily considering fire’s many demographic, behavioral, and physiological consequences for the host. Of the handful of studies that have found differences between host–parasite communities in ...
Donate to aGoFundMededicated to displaced First Nations Communities that need to rebuild. Donate food, toiletries and household items usingGivit. How to help firefighters Donate to theNew South Wales Rural Fire Service. The service has set upspecific fundsfor the families of volunteer firefighters w...
So far, she’s raised $555,000 and has had 9,5000 people register for the virtual run. “It’s been a scrappy operation from its infancy,” she says. “But eventually, I came to this 'ah ha moment', where I realized there must be something I could do to mobilize the running ...
“This here is very different from the USA, where ‘communities’ exist. Here they don’t exist. People don’t feel that they belong to a community in an urbanization [residential area], for example. And that’s what makes things difficult for people to take care of their own property....
The CFS provides financial assistance to volunteer firefighters in the state, where two people have died in the bushfires. The Queensland government has partnered with nonprofit GIVIT to collect donations via credit card and PayPal on its website, as well as direct deposits. Meanwhile, the ...
Researchers have started an attribution study to determine how much global warming is to blame for the blazes that have ravaged the continent.