FIRESTORM

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From backing singer for Joe Cocker to firefighting chief
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
Once a professional performer who sang backing vocals for British rock star Joe Cocker, McKinney has spent the last 30 years helping battle the wildfires which ...
Threatened species hit hard by Australia's bushfires
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
Wildlife experts worry that more than a billion animals have perished in the unprecedented wave of bushfires that have ravaged eastern and southern Australia fo...
Australia to lose billions as bushfires deter tourists
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
The number of travellers booking visits to Australia has fallen 10-20 percent since the fires began in September and the slump will cost the economy an estimate...
Fires, then floods: How much can a koala bear?
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
Months of drought that have contributed to Australia's catastrophic bushfire season have this week given way to huge downpours in some of the blaze-ravaged area...
Australians who braved fire 'hell' to defend homes; Rains bring some relief
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
Like many thousands of Australians during the nation's unprecedented fire crisis, Stewart was faced with the agonising choice of fleeing oncoming blazes or risk...
CALIPSO shows smoke from Australia spreading high and far east
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
The intense heat from the bush and forest fires initiated unusual convective storms known as pyrocumulonimbus storms (pyroCbs). "Large and numerous pyrocumuloni...
Bushfire smoke disrupts Australian Open build-up
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
The toxic haze that has descended on Melbourne, where the year's first Grand Slam is due to begin next week, has drifted down from out-of-control blazes that ha...
Review of research finds link between climate change and wildfire risk
Jan 14, 2020 (UPI)
As the destructive rash of wildfires continue to burn across Australia, scientists at the University of East Anglia, Met Office Hadley Center, University of Exe...
Rain offers Australian bushfire hope, but smoke hits tennis stars
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
Cool weather over recent days had already given some respite for exhausted firefighters spread out across vast swathes of the country, allowing some of the bigg...
Australian 'megablaze' brought under control
Jan 13, 2020 (AFP)
New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney's northwestern outskirts, which ...
Research will help land managers take risk-analysis approach to new wildfire reality
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
Led by Chris Dunn, a research associate in the OSU College of Forestry with several years of firefighting experience, scientists have used machine learning algo...
Australia's bushfire crisis turns off tourists
Jan 13, 2020 (AFP)
Images of the unprecedented scale of this summer's blazes have evoked global shock and an outpouring of sympathy. Thousands of tourists have been evacuated from...
Bushfires bring fears of 'new normal' to Australia as death toll mounts
Jan 11, 2020 (AFP)
For the unfortunate few, three long months of bushfires have brought almost unfathomable pain -- homes lost, lives destroyed, families ripped apart. But for man...
Australian animals face extinction threat as bushfire toll mounts
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
The furry pair had survived flames that have ripped through much of southeastern Australia, but the mother's organs later collapsed from acute stress -- making ...
Strong winds create Australian 'megablaze'
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
"The conditions are difficult today," said Shane Fitzsimmons, rural fire service commissioner for New South Wales state, after days of relative calm. "It's the ...
Heatwave, strong winds fan Australia bushfire threat
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Thousands of firefighters were preparing for the worst with temperatures expected to soar above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of New Sout...
Australia bushfires flare as heatwave brings renewed misery
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Soldiers went door-to-door advising residents to leave the South Australian town of Parndana on Kangaroo Island after a large blaze bore down on the area, with ...
Kangaroo Island shows burn scars on one third of the land mass
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
In the western part of Kangaroo Island, specifically in Flinders Chase National Park, penguin colonies and famous coastal rock formations are found. Kangaroo Is...
Smoke from Australia bushfires reaches Brazil
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
Referring to satellite images, the agency's Department of Remote Sensing said the smoke had arrived in Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. Private m...
Ferocious fires in Australia intensify
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
In the resort town Mallacoota, Australia, wildfires surrounded the southeastern seaside town. Over 4,000 people were forced to seek refuge on the beach and even...
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