Bushfire

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…

Typically, a La Niña lasts a year or two and can have a wide range of global effects—the southern US tends to get drier, for instance, and the Pacific Northwest gets wetter. But this one began in 2020 and ended just a few months ago.  This La Niña was also weird…

Nearly a million acres have been destroyed in wildfires across the western Canadian province of Alberta, with more than 30,000 people forced to evacuate and oil production forced to halt after a state of emergency was declared this weekend.  The province, which is the country’s largest producer of crude oil…

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NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE The burnt-out wreckage of the Boeing 737 waterbombing plane that crashed and burned while fighting a blaze southeast of Perth, Western Australia state is seen on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. WEST AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF FIRES AND EMERGENCY SERVICES HANDOUT PHOTO VIA AFP Read this in The Manila…