A Monash University-led study of emergency responders' workers compensation claims from exposure to extreme bushfires (Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 and the Black Summer fires of 2019 and 2020) found associations with mental health disorders and head injuries. With a changing climate, Australia i...
Ryan C. 1993. Costs and benefits of tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms and bushfires in Australia. Climate Change 25: 353-367.Ryan, C.J. 1993. Costs and benefits of tropical cyclones, severe thunder- storms and bushfires in Australia. Climate Change, 25, 353-67....
Severe bushfires have destroyed houses in Australia and 56.(brief) spread to suburbs of Sydney,officials say. Scores 57.fires are still burning in New South Wales during temperatures of 35℃ and winds of 80km/h. 58.feared southerly wind change has now occurred but the“catastrophic"(灾难性...
with people still in critical conditions in hospital.The death toll surpasses that from the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires, in which 75 people died in Victoria and South Australia , and the Black Friday bushfires of 1939, which killed 71. Over 1,000 homes have...
NASA’s Terra satellite provided before and after imagery that showed the extent of the fires that have been ravaging Australia’s Kangaroo Island. Kangaroo Island lies off the mainland of South Australia, southwest of Adelaide. About a third of the island is made up of protected nature rese...
1957: Hurricane Winds & Bushfires Make Sydney Area A Hellhole 1957: Flood, Drought & Typhoon Bring China to Brink of New Famine 1957: Nine Dead In "Worst" Floods In Oklahoma History 1957: "Weather Extreme Over U.S." 1957: Torrential Rain Swamps Japan - 309 Dead After 32 Inches In 24...
Severe heatwave hits Pakistan's southern Karachi, alert issued Heatwave breaks records in several Mexican states South Australia warned to prepare for bushfires, blackouts as record heatwave continuesMORE PHOTOS Then and now: aerial views of China's Qingdao Volunteers at media center ready for ...
\"Heat, drought, flood and fire are not new phenomena for Australia; we have seen these before and we will see them again. The season just gone saw bushfires on the northern New South Wales coast during August, and although that is not common, it certainly is not unprecedented. It was...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- A massive crash on a highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania on Sunday morning left five people dead and dozens of others hospitalized, said authorities. The crash happened at approximately 3:33 a.m. local time (0833 GMT) on the Pennsylvania Turnpike ...
northern China were routinely above 40[degrees]C, breaking historical records; Australia had its third-warmest year on record, marked by three exceptional heat waves, one of which brought Victoria's highest recorded temperature (48.8[degrees]C) and the worst bushfires in the country's history. ...