bushfirescardiorespiratoryhealth impactssmokeSmoke exposure from bushfires, such as those experienced in Australia during 2019–2020, can reach levels up to 10 times those deemed hazardous. Short‐term and extended exposure to high levels of air pollution can be associated with adverse health effects,...
Addressing the fires, Price said Australians across the nation had suffered through its hottest summer in recorded history. "There's no doubt that there are many people who have suffered over this summer. We talk about the Victorian bushfires; (in) my home state of Western Australia we've a...
It has been projected that if climate change leads to more frequent and intense hot and dry periods, fire hazards in Australia will almost inevitably increase. The combustion of litter and soils produce/release nutrient-rich erodible ash, organic matter, metals and other toxicants stored in ...
"This study will give us a clearer picture of how family dynamics impacted children's emotional and social behaviour in the wake of the bushfires and COVID-19."■
The 2019–2020 megafires in Australia (hereafter, the ‘2019–20 fires’) burnt 10.3 million ha (ref. 5), including the largest documented area burnt at high severity4. These fires generated a record number of pyro-convective storms and disrupted the planet’s stratosphere3. What happened...
While prescribed burning of landscapes reduces the risk of bushfires, the health impacts are not widely appreciated and need to be better incorporated into the risk management of burn-off activities, according to the authors of research published online today by theMedical Journal of Australia. ...
Check access to the full text by signing in through your organization. Access through your organization Section snippets Study site Located in New South Wales (NSW) on the east coast of Australia (Fig. 1a), the Macleay River catchment is ∼11,389 km2 and has a cool temperate-to-subtro...
Currently, the popula‑ tion of both regions is relatively young. With aging of the population over time, vulnerabilities to air pollution and health effects from peatland fires will increase. Conclusions: Peatland fire health impacts provide a further argument to combat fires in peatlands, ...
& Crimp, S. in Four Degrees of Global Warming: Australia in a Hot World (ed. P Christoff) (Earthscan, Routledge 2014). Reisinger, A. et al. in Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the AR5 of the ...
题目Recently Australia has listed the koala as an endangered species across most of(1) its(it) east coast,after a dramatic decline in numbers because(2) ofland clearing,bushfires,drought,disease and other threats.The federal government has been urged to do more(3) to protect(pro...