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Biodiversity can rebound after bushfires, but recovery lags in severely burnt areas

23 Oct 2023

Extreme fires drove biodiversity declines despite overall resilience after the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfire season in NSW, a new study suggests.

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Renewable backup power key to energy resilience in disasters: report

13 Sep 2023

Households need more support to implement alternative energy solutions to help manage outages during bushfires and extreme weather events. 

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Brace for bushfire season ahead, but expect worse to come

21 Aug 2023

The upcoming bushfire season in Australia may be bad, but future years pose a more significant threat, says a UNSW bushfire expert.

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This bushfire season could be bad. Protect yourself by doing these five things

01 Aug 2023

A UNSW Sydney fire expert has warned bushfires could be fierce and widespread this summer and is encouraging people to be fully prepared as soon as possible.

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Bigger, wilder, more destructive: How cold fronts affected the Black Summer bushfires

20 Jul 2023

Cold fronts can make bushfires worse, a startling consideration for authorities pondering the upcoming bushfire season. 

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New study solves 30-year-old puzzle: how is climate change affecting El Niño and La Niña?

19 May 2023

The research helps us understand how El Niño and La Niña will change as the world warms in the future.

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Smoke from the Black Summer fires could have made the triple La Nina more likely

11 May 2023

Could plumes of smoke from the Black Summer of fire have cooled regions of the Pacific and triggered a La Niña? New research suggests it’s possible.

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In a bad fire year, Australia records over 450,000 hotspots. These maps show where the risks have increased over 20 years

04 May 2023

Two decades of satellite data have allowed us to map fires across the country and identify areas facing high fire risks.

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Most people already think climate change is 'here and now', despite what we've been told

24 Apr 2023

Despite the popular and intuitive notion that people find climate change psychologically distant, a new review of the evidence shows that’s not the case at all.

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A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago

18 Apr 2023

Researchers focused on a site in the Illawarra region of NSW, which holds a unique record into the past.

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