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The Australia bush fires, which are still burning and have claimed an additional three lives this week, have released enough greenhouse gases to effectively double that country’s annual emissions from burning fossil fuels, new scientific estimates show.
This bushfire disaster has posed a major leadership test for Scott Morrison. On Saturday, the prime minister announced a major federal intervention in the crisis, deploying the Defence Force and putting $20 million on the table for extra water bombers. But experts who had been warning the government of catastrophic fires this summer believe it was a move which should have happened much sooner.
Price of Fireproofing Homes May Be Too Much for Some Refugees
Researchers are concerned that huge pulses of carbon emissions from devastating wildfires could overwhelm natural reservoirs that store carbon dioxide.
In east Gippsland, wildlife officers from Parks Victoria and the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning have been scouring burnt land for injured wildlife.
I’m writing this at my desk in Canberra, the Australian national capital, whose air quality has beaten the worst in the world by 4 or 5 times in recent days, and even today is far from flash (hazardous).
A pair of massive bushfires in southeastern Australia has merged into a “megafire” engulfing some 2,300 square miles — a single blaze more than three times as large as any known fire in California.
MELBOURNE, Australia — The bush fire crisis gripping Australia is piling political pressure on its government to take bolder action on climate change, as the scorching of vast tracts of forest and farmland amplifies demands for a hastier transition away from fossil fuels.
Sydney expert Professor Chris Dickman has revised his estimate of the number of animals killed in bushfires in NSW to more than 800 million animals, with a national impact of more than one billion animals.
The country’s plight has put a global focus on the connection between fossil fuels and climate change.