Tag: bushfire recovery
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,...
Let’s fix Australia’s environment with any pandemic recovery aid – the Kiwis are doing it
Picture: Leah Anne Thompson/Shutterstock
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant economic challenges for Australia. With April figures showing more than 800,000 people unemployed and last month 1.6 million on JobSeeker payments,...
Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse?
Picture: Rachael Nolan, CC BY-NC
The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season’s unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity...