Warnings are also issued to alert people to impending bushfires and advise them how to respond. This paper examines how people threatened and affected by bushfires in New South Wales, Australia, in 2017 understood, interpreted and acted upon warning messages they received. The research involved ...
University of Sydney ecologists estimate that around 480 million animals have been killed. Up to 30% of the koala population in New South Wales' mid-north coast may have been killed, Australia's minister for the environment, Sussan Ley, told theAustralian Broadcast...
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...
Bushfires are not an uncommon thing in Australia, one of the most wildfire prone regions in the entire world. Those fires can cause a tremendous amount of damage, and the country's 2019-20 bushfires were particularly devastating. An album calledSongs for Australiawas released in 2020 to help...
on where we work, how we work, and the skills we need to work, than ever before. And, while the introduction of shared spaces has driven a new type of work culture and personal expectation, we believe it’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what the future has in-store...
Science educators are particularly concerned about the removal of evolution. A chapter on diversity in living organisms and one called ‘Why do we fall ill’ has beenremoved from the syllabus for class-9 students, who are typically 14–15 years old. Darwin’s contributions to evolution, how fo...
Similar disruption has happened in the Gold Coast, Canberra and elsewhere, but ultimately light rail systems have been highly successful in attracting patronage and land development. This will happen in Sydney too when the project is complete. ...
Finally, this scary video, showing the spread of a fire in Australia, is in real time! TERRIFYING: This is how quickly a#bushfirecan overrun you. Within three minutes, fire crews at Shoalhaven in NSW, go from setting up for property protection to fleeing for their lives due to a change...
this method assumes that the relationship between temperature and GDP today could be used to predict what will happen as the whole planet’s climate changes. But while temperature isn’t a particularly important factor in economic output today, climate change will do much more...
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