Bushfire

By Kirsty NeedhamSYDNEY (Reuters) - On the burning question of whether Australian schools should close as coronavirus cases increase, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was adamant: "Children should go to school."Morrison emerged from a special meeting of state and territory leaders on Sunday evening to urge parents to keep children in…

The companion album to the historic Fire Fight Australia concert last month in Sydney has lit up the Australian chart, while The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (Republic/Universal) enters a ninth week atop the national singles chart. Artists Unite For Fire Fight: Concert For National Bushfire Relief, the new No. 1 on…

Updated March 23, 2020 13:55:46 Preparations are being made to impose restrictions on the entry of people into South Australia in what the Premier says is an effective closing of borders, while a doctor on bushfire-affected Kangaroo Island is calling for all tourism to stop. Key points:Anyone entering SA from…

In Australia right now, it’s bushfire season. And this year, it has been a particularly bad one. That means that for a significant part of the Summer so far, I’ve been stuck indoors trying to avoid noxious bush fire smoke. To top it off, now we have the Coronavirus to…

Updated March 21, 2020 08:58:57 After a disastrous vintage from a summer of bushfires and smoke-tainted grapes, a South Australian winemaker has something to celebrate. Key points:Winemakers are attempting to salvage their vintage after bushfires tainted their grapesNew harvesting techniques allow small batches of wine to be produced without smoke…

Australia started to recover from devastating summer bushfires only a month ago, leaving behind a landscape that led The New York Times to proclaim “The End of Australia as We Know It.” Many spent the hot summer indoors, unable to go outside due to the hazardous smoke that filled central…

Ricky Vigil M/GC Images The Pussycat Dolls Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Nicole Scherzinger, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt seen at BBC Studios performing for The One Show on Feb. 26, 2020 in London. The So Pop 2020 festival tour has been scrapped, due to the strict policies put in place…

Australian farmers are all too familiar with dry and erratic weather conditions affecting day-to-day business. Reports over the last 20 years demonstrate that these conditions will only worsen — with an increased climate estimated to have​ ​reduced yearly profits​ by 22%.The current bushfire season has had a disastrous impact on…

(Bloomberg) -- For Australians, getting called “un-Australian” is one of the most grating insults around.So when Prime Minister Scott Morrison used the term to shame hoarders on Wednesday while seeking to calm panic over a surge in coronavirus cases, it got the public’s attention. He insisted the chaotic scenes in…

“Planned fuel reduction burns.” That’s the official name the Forest Fire Management (FFM) agency in Australia uses to reference the low-intensity, planned, intentional fires they set in order to reduce the hazard or “fuel loading” in a landscape. If there’s less organic matter to burn, the thinking goes, a bushfire…