Bushfires account for 40% of fatalities associated with declared disasters in Australia. A significant proportion of these fatalities occur closer to forested areas because over 90% of the recorded locations for the deaths were within 100 metres of bushland areas. Despite this, there has ...
A map shows the locations of active bushfires in Australia, Jan. 2, 2020.Government of Western Australia Although temperatures have cooled a bit, conditions are forecast to worsen by Saturday. Ahead of a trough moving over the east coast is a mass of hot air,...
Many extreme weather such as droughts and fires are also linked to warming ocean temperatures. In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of wildfires and extended fire seasons globally due to prolonged droughts. For instance, catastrophic bushfires in Austra...
Be it the floodings in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, or the heatwaves in Western North America. Even the bushfires in Australia that ravaged the fauna in 2019/2020. These are extreme examples of climate change, but also very clear reminders that these events could happen anytime, any...
Australia definitely does things big © Courtesy of Dadswell Bridge / Lonely Planet The world’s largest island is also a little obsessed with making things BIG. Depending on how you measure it (we’re looking at you “Big Bogan”, Nyngan, New South Wales) there are more than 200 monste...
Driverless cars are already hitting the roads (in test scenarios), and when they are mainstream, it’s posed that anyone could more valuably use their commuting time to work while the car drives. Similar to long haul flights today, many executives use it as a time for uninterrupted work. ...
There are times, however, when this fierce sense of equality has a less-desirable result. ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome', a tendency to discredit or disparage those who have achieved notable wealth or prominence in public life, means Australians sometimes portray a more laidback attitude than is truthful...
There are many laws to protect wild animals recently, but it is more important for us to do something for wild animals in our daily life. We can help make the world better by saving water, planting more trees and flowers and using less paper. Let's take animals as members of the w...
In Australia, microgrids are being utilised in order to remove the risk of outages caused by long distance power transmission, where power lines are exposed to plant and animal impacts, extreme weather and bushfires. Western Australia’s state-owned electricity network operator currently has four mi...
Taronga Zoo’s HR chief says the organisation has been using Facebook’s enterprise collaboration platform as a way of pushing out key messages to a highly heterogeneous workforce comprising both employees and a large number of volunteers.