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 ...
All this is a dangerous cocktail for theelectricity grid. Increasing temperatures puts a strain on supplies, while bushfire smoke can limit the electricity produced bysolar panels. And troublingly, heat waves and bushfires areset to worsen as climate change continues. Here, we explain the challen...
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 ...
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.
How you and Incineration Ceremony Recordings can make a difference together. We hope to help Australian bushfire victims by donating 100% of our sales to Animals Australia, a non-profit organization.
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...
forests. This may indicate that while high severity fires have a negative influence on the number of tree hollows, a reduction in the number of HBTs may not occur. It suggests that nesting space maybe reduced at the tree-scale in severely burnt forests; however, at the stand-scale, HBTs ...
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...
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...