doi:10.7882/AZ.2022.028WILDFIRESDickman, ChrisHutchings, PatLaw, BradLunney, DanielAustralian Zoologist
While animals were severely impacted by the destruction of the past summer’s bushfires, a new study led by the Australian National University (ANU) has found that fauna may be an untapped resource to help manage bushland fuel loads.
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...
It’s more than likely that you and your crew will be the only ones out there—you’ll have lots more privacy than in a developed campground, and a lot more freedom. Cons: You’ll need to do some research and consider logistics—where to get water, how to manage trash, and where to...
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Without action on climate change, extreme weather events such as the Black Summer bushfires are likely to become more common. The recent COP26 Conference in Glasgow made clear how urgent the situation is. Atmospheric CO2 continues to rise fast. Even with the best-case scenario – with full im...
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 ...
There are now also lots of storybooks written to help teach children about such subjects as death, abuse, bullying, and even natural disasters like bushfires. After reading the story together, you could ask questions to check their understanding and what they would do if they were in the sam...
to manage their country for thousands of years. Flannery writes that “The use of fire by Aboriginal people was so widespread and constant that virtually every early explorer in Australia makes mention of it. It was an Aboriginal fire that prompted James Cook to call Australia ‘This continent...
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...