Tag: Black summer
5 remarkable stories of flora and fauna in the aftermath of Australia’s horror bushfire season
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Around one year ago, Australia’s Black Summer bushfire season ended, leaving more than 8 million hectares across south-east Australia a mix of charcoal, ash and...
Asking people to prepare for fire is pointless if they can’t afford to do it. It’s time we subsidised fire prevention
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Once again, Australia is on fire. This year it’s the turn of Western Australia and South Australia, where bushfires are threatening homes and lives. In...
Photos from the field: zooming in on Australia’s hidden world of exquisite mites, snails and beetles
Dragon springtails (pictured) are widely distributed in forests of eastern Australia — yet they’re still largely unknown to science. Nick Porch, Author provided
Which animals are...
Frequent extreme bushfires are our new reality. We need to learn how to live with smoke-filled air
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As fires ravaged large sections of the Australian bush last summer, cities and towns all along the coast were blanketed in toxic smoke....
Summer bushfires: how are the plant and animal survivors 6 months on? We mapped their recovery
State Government of Victoria/Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Australia roared into 2020 as a land on fire. The human and property loss was staggering,...