Bushfire

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…

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…