In Australia more bushfires are started by deliberate lighting than are caused by lightning or other natural sources. This creates an element of criminality in relation to bushfires which includes the establishment of bushfire arson as a serious criminal offence. The author presents a motive-based ...
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 physiol...
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1825) following bushfires in eastern Australia showed that a reduction in available foraging habitats was associated with substantially reduced survival prospects (Baranowski et al.2020). The bats also had to newly compete
As climate change stokes larger and more intense wildfires, firestorms are likely to become more common. Here’s why they occur and what makes them so dangerous.
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 ...
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...
Often during a severe fire, high-intensity crown fires will occur, rapidly burning the canopy, while the soil organic layers may continue to burn over a longer period (Miyanishi and Johnson, 2002). Standard measures of fire severity include the depth of burned soil organic layers (Stocks et ...
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...
aThe days following a wildfire can be as disastrous, if not more so than the actual lire itself. A particularly destructive fire burns away plants and trees that prevent erosion. If heavy rains occur after such a fire, landslides, ash lows, and floods can occur. This can result in property...