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 ...
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 ...
More sweltering days and nights are expected. The Bureau of Meteorologyforecastsabove-average temperatures for most of Australia this summer. What's more,bushfire expertspredict an increased fire risk across vast regions of the continent. Already this season, anout-of-control bushfire struck Creswick...
Dr Foster said grass-eating mammals such as cows, sheep and kangaroos can be useful in helping manage fuel in grassland ecosystems. “In some parts of Australia, cows are regularly used to keep fuel levels down in grassland reserves,” she said. “But our report has shown that grazing anima...
TheSydney Rock Oysteris one of the native species that's been cultivated as a profitable industry in Australia since European habitation. They've been farmed sustainably for more than 150 years. These oysters are still the basis of a profitable industry, which has grown in size over recent yea...
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 ...
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And it's being spurred on by human actions. But despite the constant signs of climate change -- devastating fires in Australia, snow turning green in Antarctica, rising seas threatening Venice, the hottest five year stretch on Earth, ever -- humanity is well and truly dragging its feet on ...