Bushfire

CANBERRA: Australia is considering listing koalas on the country's east coast as endangered, Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley said on Friday in an emailed statement. Australia already classifies east coast koalas as vulnerable, their numbers under pressure from logging, urban encroachment and a pervasive infection. As well, bushfires across…

Binance Charity, Binance Australia, and the Koala Clancy Foundation have, on Earth Day, launched a new cryptocurrency, Tree Token, in an effort to help restore the wildlife habitats impacted by the 2019 Australian Bushfires. The collaborative blockchain project aims to raise $1 million AUD worth of Tree Tokens to plant…

A milder season and the coronavirus pandemic have prompted a big fall in the number of people arrested or reported for causing bushfires in South Australia. Nearing the annual close of Operation Nomad, which monitors known firebugs and focuses on behaviour that may cause fires, police say only seven people…

Environment 8 April 2021 By Donna Lu Bushfires burning along a mountainside in New South Wales, Australia John Moore/Getty Images Smoke pollution from Australian bushfires in 2019 and 2020 warmed the stratosphere over the southern hemisphere by at least 1°C for six months, according to a new analysis. The devastating…

By Caitlin Welsh2021-03-23 10:14:38 UTC Less than 18 months after the "Black Summer" bushfire crisis that made global headlines last southern summer, Australia's east coast is dealing with torrential rain and flooding described as a "once-in-100-year" event — with many of the affected communities the very same ones still recovering…

Months of rain falling in a few days has caused the worst flooding in 60 years in parts of New South Wales already reeling from drought, bushfires and Covid-19 Over the past two years, the people of Australia’s New South Wales have faced a long drought, a horror summer of…

Historic floods are sweeping Australia’s eastern state of New South Wales, forcing dams to spill over, rivers to burst their banks and thousands of people to evacuate. In parts of Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury-Nepean River system the flooding has reached levels not seen since 1961, according to the Bureau of Meteorology,…

The Humble Bundle video game store, which donates a portion of sales to charity, had a gigantic year in 2020. The company announced that it raised more than $30 million in 2020, supporting 224 charities in total. Of the $30 million, Humble Bundle raised more than $8.1 million for COVID-19…

coronavirus, The Canberra Hospital, COVID-19, coronavirus, International Women's Day When Australia got its first case of COVID-19, people were rightly panicked. To many on the wards of the Canberra Hospital, the virus was still the great unknown - but not to Wendy Beckingham. Her infection prevention and control team had…

Millions of dollars were donated to Australian recovery efforts after images of suffering koalas flooded our feeds. I f it’s even possible to remember a pre-pandemic news cycle that didn’t include the mention of COVID-19, you may recall the devastating bushfires that ravaged Australia in early 2020. It’s been just…