Bushfire

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Australian firefighters said they expect to battle an out-of-control bushfire well into the night on Saturday, as the blaze threatens lives and homes in the west coast city of Perth. Residents were told "to act immediately to survive" as the flames approached homes near Oakford, about…

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Recovery efforts are underway after a major grassfire swept through South Australia's southeast, destroying several homes, along with fencing and livestock. A police investigation into the blaze, which threatened the town of Lucindale on Monday, has tracked the source to a paddock near the south-eastern end of the Mt Scott…

Ash fills the water at White Rock Creek, Nungatta, NSW. Following the intense heat of a bushfire, soil is destabilised, which causes loss of plant roots that in turn wash into the river systems and destroy habitat for a range of creatures. The damage of bushfires continues long after the…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - In a summer that was supposed to be unusually cool and wet, Australian builder Rob Lye did not expect to be trapped by a bushfire on sub-tropical Fraser Island and battling with his neighbours to protect their homes.FILE PHOTO: A firefighter is seen as New South Wales…

December 7, 2020 | 4:19am | Updated December 7, 2020 | 4:19am Conservationists have made a very tiny, but highly heartening discovery on a South Australian island that was ravaged by bushfires last summer — a lone, surviving pygmy possum. The miniature mammals — smaller than an adult’s thumb —…

Residents of a coastal township on Australia's World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached.Since it was sparked by an illegal campfire seven weeks ago, the blaze has blackened half the island off Australia's north eastern coast, which is part of the Great Barrier…

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Overnight temperatures in Australia’s biggest city were the hottest ever, with officials fearing that sweltering November heat could fuel dozens of existing wildfires.Sydney recorded a minimum overnight temperature of 77.4 degrees just after 1 a.m. local time on Sunday – smashing a record that had stood since 1967.The temperature at Sydney’s Observatory Hill…

“Those rainforests haven’t burnt for thousands of years, scientists have told me anecdotally,” he said.“They just don’t burn. The tops of these mountains have these rainforests on top of them and then they transition out to eucalypt or wet sclerophyll forests.“They are like the Galapagos Islands, but on top of…