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 ...
Samantha Gash is an ultramarathoner with an intense training schedule — but, in the last few months, she’s had some serious disruptions to her runs. Gash lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has seen the effects of the continent-wide fire crisis firsthand. So far, the bushfires have kill...
CH4 emissions also occur in upland soils, but at low rates (von Fischer and Hedin, 2007). Even though permafrost areas are C sinks, they are currently a source of CH4, ranging between 4 and 17 Tg CH4 yr-1 (including peatlands), and these emissions are expected to increase with a ...
Australia is currently being ravaged by bushfires, once again. Donate to these organizations that are working to help victims and put out the fires.
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...
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.
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Research exploring the effects of bushfire smoke exposure on children's health is sparse. However, during smoke events, we do see an increasein hospital visitsfor asthma, as well as children reporting irritation to their eyes, nose and throat. If your childhas asthmaor anothermedical condition,...
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 ...