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 ...
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...
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...
One of the main areas of habitat for the endangered SGG and other hollow-dependent arboreal fauna are the mixed eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia. These areas were severely affected by the 2019/2020 bushfires, which burnt large areas of the SGG’s range (Ward et al.2020). Climate...
There is some evidence that fire can reduce an animal’s fitness by reducing habitat suitability. A study in grey-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalusTermminck, 1825) following bushfires in eastern Australia showed that a reduction in available foraging habitats was associated with substantially...
Economic damage from 2009’s Black Saturday fires, the costliest in Australia’s history, reached an estimated $4.4 billion. Moody’s Analytics says the cost of the 2019–2020 bushfires is likely to exceed even that figure and will cripple consumer confidence and harm industries such as farming...
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 ...
From helping to revive tourism in destinations which have experienced multiple challenges over the last couple of decades such as Nepal, to tracking koalas in Australia’s bushfire-stricken New South Wales to booking zero-carbon itineraries to staying in properties making an effort when it comes to...
Scientists may have been talking about climate change for years but 2019 was the year when the issue went mainstream. Even as the year ended, the news was filled with stories about rampant bushfires in Australia and flooding in Indonesia. As the evidence mounts that the earth is warming, cli...