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 ...
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 ...
A map of Australia showing where the bushfire risk is high this summer. Credit:AFAC The Australian summer has started to unleash its power. On Monday, theVictorian town of Walpeup reached 47.1°C, and towns in Queensland, western New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory all...
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, including species that can cause harmful algal blooms. From coast to coast More than half of the value of Australia's o...
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 ...
Bushfires areamong the worsening hazardscausing homes to be uninsurable, and pose a particularly high risk to many thousands of homes across eastern Australia. For example, the Climate Council found55% of propertiesin the electorate of Macquarie, NSW, will be at risk of bushfires in 2030, if...
In 2019, Australia lost 190,000 square kilometers of land in bushfires that killed not only about one billion animals, but also 33 people. Perhaps it’s not too surprising that the billowing smoke resulting from such a blaze was visible from space. But the fires’ effects didn’t end ...
with my 7-year-old and it was really different to the original with a lot of Anne’s trauma in it and a lot of school bullying – we decided she wasn’t ready to watch it, and talked about how schools are (generally) safer how and some of those things wouldn’t happen because we...
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A-train1906, there is a Youtube video by Potholer54 title from January 2020, titled:"The cause of Australia's bushfires _ what the SCIENCE says".Recommended. It is rather long, at 36 minutes . . . but Potholer54 does include some humorous parts, so it is all good entertainment as ...