Bushfire

In an Australian first, artificial intelligence will be used in South Australia's Green Triangle forestry region to monitor for bushfires. Key points:The new detection technology will be operational before the 2023-2024 bushfire season It will be fitted to existing fire monitoring towers and to a new tower under construction at Penola NorthThe…

Scientists are warning that Australia faces a scorching summer as the weather bureau is forecasting unseasonably hot and dry weather in coming months. Heatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural hazard. They kill more people than bushfires, floods, storms and drought combined. This year, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting warmer and…

The catastrophic Australian bushfires in 2019 to 2020 contributed to ocean cooling thousands of miles away, ultimately nudging the tropical Pacific into a rare multiyear La Niña event that dissipated only recently. The research was led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and published in Science…

Populations of koalas in New South Wales and Queensland are so low they are now considered endangered. (Image credit: John Giustina/Getty Images) Koalas present something of a paradox. They are a poster child for imminent extinction, at risk from deforestation, climate change and bushfires. Yet, where I live in South…

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Black Summer smoke. Credit: NASA The 2019-2020 bushfire season was devastating. Vast areas of pristine forest burned, many for the first time in memory. By some estimates, a billion native animals died up and down Australia's east coast. Dozens of people died. While Sydney's skies are blue again, Australia's Black…

CNN  —  Smoke from Australia’s worst wildfires in decades may have contributed to the rare triple La Niña weather event that impacted continents thousands of miles away, according to new research. Flames burned through 46 million acres from June 2019 to January 2020 – during Australia’s summer months – thrusting…

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The 2019-2020 Australian bushfires threw up so much ash into the atmosphere that it resulted in a cooling of the southern Pacific and hence a La Niña climate phenomenon, a new study says.Volcanic eruptions that send vast ash plumes into the atmosphere are thought to trigger La Niña events, but…

Key PointsThe report said the bushfires were "exceptional" in their severity.Researchers used modelling to demonstrate how emissions from the bushfires could shift weather patterns.Global weather patterns oscillate between cooling La Niña and warming El Niño cyclesAustralia's Black Summer bushfire catastrophe coughed up so much smoke it may have fuelled the…