29 (Xinhua) -- A quarter of people impacted by Victoria's deadly 2009 Black Saturday bushfires are suffering from serious mental health issues, a report has found. The fires left 173 people killed and 414 others injured as up to 400 individual fires burned over one million acres of ...
Koalas yelping for help, beehives caught in the path of danger, food chains interrupted: Australia's bushfire crisis is having a destructive effect on the nation's wildlife, writes Gary Nunn in Sydney. The deadly spring blazes have burnt through almost two million hectares in New South Wales...
The Australian Defence Force was later deployed to assist with the firefighting operation and relief. However, there has been some criticism that their involvement was delayed and should have been more proactive. Mullin's group also suggested that during bushfire-prone months, seasonal casual staff c...
The most severe bushfire in the world is burning in south-eastern Australia and its 【3】 (surround) areas in this dry season. The current summer 【4】 (present) the perfect storm for wildfire so far. Climate change is making Australian wildfires more powerful 【5】 (large) due to its ...
and then—whap-whap—justpunchthe syringe right out of my hand with those spring-loaded forepaws of hers. (I’d never really thought of where the term “rabbit punch” came from before. I would not want to go one-on-one with one of those things in the ring.) She was small and fi...
Living with wildfire also means living with the consequences of fire. The recent flooding that is crippling land travel in and out of B.C.’s lower mainland is a good example. “It is not all attributable to fires, but fires do play a role. When you remove the vegetation, the rain is...
In the worst-case scenario, the couple might lose a third of their personal net worth.(在最糟的情況下,這對夫婦可能會損失三分之一的資產淨值。) be someone’s own worst enemy Enemy的意思是「敵人、仇敵」,所以說某人是自己最大的敵人就是指某人「自討苦吃、自找麻煩」,舉個例子: ...
According to the World Wildlife Fund, it estimated that 1.2 billion animals have died, as a result of the bushfires, which have burned more than 26 million acres in Australia. Several craft guild (手工业行会) websites around the world have mobilized (动员) for Australian relief by making th...
Grim Warning on Bushfires; Queensland Experiences Worst Bushfire Conditions in Years as Officials Warn Residents to Be on GuardGympie Times, The Qld