Bushfire

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…

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Stepping out onto the White House lawn from a helicopter before tearing off his face mask and telling Americans “to get out there” and not fear Covid-19 - Donald Trump the showman was out of hospital and back on the world stage last night.Ascending the South Portico staircase, the “contagious”…

Listen to this story Today the Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered his pre-budget speech on “arguably one of the most important” budgets since the end of the second world war. The 2020-21 budget, which will be announced next Tuesday, comes at the heels of Australia’s worst economic contraction after being…

explainers, bushfire, bushfire season, australian wildfire, fire risk, bushfire safety, fire evacuation plan, fire planAustralia's devastating bushfire season of 2019-20 is not a distant memory. Thousands of homes and millions of hectares of land were destroyed by fires that spanned several months. Fires burned across the country, ravaging landscapes through…

Umurangi Generation, one of 2020's slightly under-the-radar gems, is coming to Switch. What's more, owners of the game on PC will be able to expand their experience with a new DLC pack, titled Macro.Umurangi Generation is a cyberpunk photography game, set in a low-fi world that glows red and is…

More work is needed on climate projections to assess Australia's future natural disasters risk and plan for different scenarios, an inquiry has been told.The royal commission into the Black Summer bushfires is holding its final week of public hearings before a report due on October 28.Peak science agency CSIRO scientists…