Tag: Bushfires 2020
Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small
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Review: Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin Random House, 2020)
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan’s eighth novel,...
From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery
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Following the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, many people throughout Australia, and across the world, wanted to know how they could...
Summer bushfires: how are the plant and animal survivors 6 months on? We mapped their recovery
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Australia roared into 2020 as a land on fire. The human and property loss was staggering,...
Our field cameras melted in the bushfires. When we opened them, the results were startling
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This article is a preview of Flora, Fauna, Fire, a multimedia project launching on Monday July 13. The project tracks the...
There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now, and coronavirus is only one of them
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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...
Want to help save wildlife after the fires? You can do it in your own backyard
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People living in cities far from the unprecedented bushfires this summer may feel they can do little more to help beyond donating to...