2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
Understanding the Role of a Fire Safety Advisor
A fire safety advisor is a person responsible for creating plans and strategies for the safety of a house, business, organization, or community. Fire...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery
Picture: David Crosling/AAP
Following the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, many people throughout Australia, and across the world, wanted to know how they could...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
Summer bushfires: how are the plant and animal survivors 6 months on? We mapped their recovery
State Government of Victoria/Agriculture, Water and the EnvironmentAustralia roared into 2020 as a land on fire. The human and property loss was staggering,...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
Our field cameras melted in the bushfires. When we opened them, the results were startling
Picture: Taronga Zoo
This article is a preview of Flora, Fauna, Fire, a multimedia project launching on Monday July 13. The project tracks the...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
Australia, it’s time to talk about our water emergency
Dean Lewins/AAP
The last bushfire season showed Australians they can no longer pretend climate change will not affect them. But there’s another climate change influence...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now, and coronavirus is only one of them
Picture: DAN HIMBRECHTS/AAP
Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous smoke, towns running...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
A major scorecard gives the health of Australia’s environment less than 1 out of 10
Image: Dave Hunt/AAP
2019 was the year Australians confronted the fact that a healthy environment is more than just a pretty waterfall in a national...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
Logging is due to start in fire-ravaged forests this week. It’s the last thing our wildlife needs
Picture: Sean Davey/AAP
New South Wales’ Forestry Corporation will this week start “selective timber harvesting” from two state forests ravaged by bushfire on the state’s south coast.The...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
Buzz off honey industry, our national parks shouldn’t be milked for money
Picture: James Dorey, Author provided (No reuse)
Among the vast number of native species damaged by the recent bushfire crisis, we must not forget native pollinators. These animals,...
2019-2020 BUSHFIRES
The burn legacy: why the science on hazard reduction is contested
Jason Edwards/PR handout image
When it comes to reducing the extent of bushfires, scientists disagree on the best way to do it. Hazard-reduction burning (also...
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