bushfires

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

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

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

satellite image of bushfire smoke off eastern australia

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.

bushfire in australian outback

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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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.

Joseph Lycett, Aborigines using fire to hunt kangaroo

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

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