Bushfire

“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…

Ghislaine Maxwell is a cracking subject for a podcast, said James Marriott in The Times. And in Hunting Ghislaine, John Sweeney (famous for “screaming at Scientologists” on Panorama) does it “more than” justice. In this “gripping and beautifully constructed” documentary, he has the confidence not to kick things off “overexcitedly”…

A bushfire which threatened a number of towns north of Adelaide, as it burnt through grassland and crops, has been contained.An emergency warning was issued at one stage on Friday for the blaze as it burnt towards Roseworthy, Sandy Creek, Freeling and Lyndoch in hot and windy conditions.However, the CFS…

news, latest-news, ses, national museum, uniform, bushfiresThe importance of State Emergency Service volunteers is being recognised, with the National Museum of Australia taking one of their distinctive orange uniforms into its collection for the first time. The uniform was worn by SES Sutton unit commander Anthorr Nomchong over the disastrous…

More than 50 per cent of Australians intend to travel in the next six months, says Tourism Australia. Australia’s tourism industry, which employs 5 per cent of Australia’s workforce, has experienced a tough year, impacted by bushfires, the pandemic and interstate and national border closures.  However, industry experts have observed…

The bushfires that scorched vast tracts of Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 were just a glimpse of what’s to come as global temperatures rise, a landmark report made public on Friday warned. The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements, which was commissioned by the Australian government, says…

Bushfire inquiry recommends better climate modelling, disaster co-ordination to deal with future calamities.Australia needs the national coordination of disaster responses, a change to laws to allow country-wide state of emergencies and simplified climate-change projections, an inquiry into its worst bushfire season in a generation found on Friday. Inevitable climate change…

The Bear fire was one of the largest of the over 8,000 wildfires that have beset California this year. Now incorporated into the still-burning North Complex Fire, the Bear started in the Plumas National Forest, sparked by a series of lightning strikes on August 17 across the northern Sierra Nevada.…

New trucks, new kit and better communications will place South Australia in a better position to fight potentially deadly bushfires this summer, the state government says.The government is rolling out a $97.5 million action plan following a major review of last season's fires which devastated parts of the Adelaide Hills…

From bushfires and a hail storm at the start of the year to the ongoing global pandemic, this year has tested Andrew Barr’s leadership skills like no other. When Barr took over as ACT Chief Minister in 2014, he became the first and so far the only openly gay head…