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 ...
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...
Public health recommendations during smoke events tend to provide general advice, and don't often include advice specifically geared at children. But children are not just little adults. They areuniquely vulnerabletoenvironmental hazardssuch as bushfire smoke for a number of reasons. Different physiolog...
Australia is currently being ravaged by bushfires, once again. Donate to these organizations that are working to help victims and put out the fires.
Many of us will be exposed to a disaster in our lifetime. In the past two years alone, Australians have lived through bushfires, floods, cyclones, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
South Australia’s Country Fire Service collects credit card donations on their website. The CFS provides financial assistance to volunteer firefighters in the state, where two people have died in the bushfires. The Queensland government has partnered with nonprofit GIVIT to collect donations via cred...
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 ...
Fire’s destructive effects are not restricted to vegetation: the flames may also kill or inactivate parasites in the environment, which could reduce the ecosystem’s burden of disease on a massive scale, such that animals are less often exposed and therefore exhibit lower burdens (reviewed in S...
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 ...