Bushfire

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…

Close to 200 bushfires ignited in Australia in early October 2019. They torched nearly 15 million acres of land and destroyed more than 2,000 homes in the states of Victoria and New South Wales along the country’s eastern and southern seaboard. Twenty-four people lost their lives, and an estimated one…

news, environment, Billions of dollars would be saved if Australia spotted and tackled new bushfires earlier, according to new research published by the Australian National University. Even starting to tackle fires half an hour earlier would save $8.2 billion over the next 30 years,. The ANU researchers looked at three…

Too many Australians are ill-prepared to face another bushfire season, with more than one in three (35 per cent) revealing they have done nothing to get ready, the Red Cross has warned.Read More

Iggy Pop's cockatoo has been named a charity ambassador. The bird - named Biggy Pop - was invited to become the “founding patron” of the Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital in Australia, and gladly accepted. The charity is attempting to help Australian wildlife recover from the devastating bushfires, which killed over…

Ronnie Scott lost his wife when she tried to to rescue their dog and cat from floodwaters in West Virginia in 2016. Carole Duncan almost lost her 83-year-old father during Australia’s massive 2019 bushfires, the firefighters finding him just in time. KerryAnn Laufer returned home days after the 2019 Kincade…