This creates an element of criminality in relation to bushfires which includes the establishment of bushfire arson as a serious criminal offence. The author presents a motive-based typology of deliberately lit bushfires and argues that a greater understanding of the reasons why people light bushfire...
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More than 200 fires have burned roughly 12 million acres, forcing more than 100,000 residents and tourists to flee in one of the largest evacuations in Australia's history. At least 19 people have died. Navy ships helped evacuate hundreds of people from beaches along the country's southeaster...
How did Indigenous Australians prevent devastating bushfires? How did things come to be according to Inuit stories of creation? Are Inuit people considered Indian? Do the Inuit eat polar bears? Why did the Inuit want their own sovereignty?
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 po...
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On 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 smothered Australia’s capital for weeks, sending a surge of residents to the hospital with breathing problems. The toxic haze got so bad that ...
So what can households do to keep electricity supplies stable this summer, amid the twin threat of bushfires and heat waves? If you live in one of thefour million Australian householdswith rooftop solar panels installed, there are several steps you can take. ...
2013), but also disservices (Dunn 2010), collectively termed nature’s contribution to people (NCP) (Díaz et al. 2018). In this section, we explore the contributions of invertebrates to urban forests and how these forests support invertebrates performing diverse functional roles, recognising tha...
While you can’t control the weather or how the electric companies respond to specific events, there are a few things that all of us can do to help prevent power outages: Improve Grid Resilience Electric companies can do several things to make the electricity grid more resilient. They can st...