FIRESTORM

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Toxic Sydney bushfire haze a 'public health emergency'
Dec 16, 2019 (AFP)
Hundreds of climate change-fuelled bushfires have been raging across Australia for months, with efforts to contain a "mega-blaze" burning north of Sydney destro...
Aussie PM breaks silence on 'troubling' smoke crisis
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
"I've lived all my life, pretty much, in Sydney and the haze that has come from those fires, I know has been deeply troubling to Sydneysiders," he said, ending ...
Indonesia hit with $5.2 billion in forest-fire losses: World Bank
Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)
The fires are an annual problem but this year was the worst since 2015 due to dry weather, with 942,000 hectares (2.3 million acres) of land, mostly on Sumatra ...
Toxic bushfire haze blankets eastern Australia
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
Fire engines raced office-to-office in the city centre with sirens blaring, as inland bushfires poured smoke laden with toxic particles into commercial building...
Smoke haze settles over Canberra as Australia burns
Dec 08, 2019 (AFP)
Australia is experiencing a horrific start to its fire season, which scientists say began earlier and is more extreme this year due to a prolonged drought and t...
Wildlife park evacuated as fires ring Sydney
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
Walkabout Wildlife Park said it had shipped out lizards, dingoes, peacocks and marsupials, as firefighters battled more than 100 fires up and down the eastern s...
California bars insurers from dropping customers in fire-prone zones
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
The decision calls for a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies refusing to renew policies in areas at high risk for wildfire. "This wildfire insu...
Sydney smoke crisis 'longest on record'
Dec 05, 2019 (AFP)
Hundreds of bushfires have burned out of control since September up and down the eastern seaboard, blanketing cities from Sydney to Brisbane in smoke for weeks ...
DiCaprio denies Bolsonaro accusation of link to Amazon fires
Nov 30, 2019 (AFP)
"While worthy of support," the 45-year-old DiCaprio said in a statement on his Instagram account, "we did not fund the organizations targeted." In his weekly br...
Bushfire threat spreads in Australia as smoke chokes Sydney
Nov 21, 2019 (AFP)
Devastating fires along the country's east coast have claimed six lives and destroyed more than 500 homes since mid-October, with climate change and unseasonabl...
Smoke haze blankets Sydney as bushfire threat rises
Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)
Official data showed that pollution had reached "hazardous" levels across Sydney, with the highest readings of PM 2.5 particulates in the city's northwest reach...
Amazon deforestation and number of fires show summer of 2019 not a 'normal' year
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
The perceived scale of the Amazon blazes received global attention this summer. However, international concerns raised at the time were countered by the Brazili...
Australia bushfires renew anger over climate change
Nov 14, 2019 (AFP)
The huge fires have touched communities up and down the east coast, killing four people and affecting millions of Australians -- threatening homes and blanketin...
Death toll in Australia bushfires rises to four
Nov 14, 2019 (AFP)
Three others have perished in bushfires in New South Wales, the state worst affected by a series of catastrophic fires that broke out along the eastern seaboard...
Bushfire threat still high as Australia clean up begins
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
Firefighters were still battling around 140 blazes across the country's eastern seaboard, but a respite from "catastrophic" weather conditions meant the danger ...
Raging Australian bushfires hit Sydney suburbs
Nov 12, 2019 (AFP)
Experts have described the conditions as the worst on record, as spring temperatures climbed toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and winds topped 80 kilo...
Australia bushfires hit Sydney suburbs
Nov 12, 2019 (AFP)
Authorities said they had one fire in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia's biggest city, under control though another one was out of control. Aerial footage showe...
Australians warned worst bushfires may be yet to come
Nov 10, 2019 (AFP)
Fires have killed three people and razed more than 150 homes since Friday, but cooler weather overnight provided a welcome reprieve for firefighters and residen...
A new type of fire, the fuel of the future?
Nov 08, 2019 (ESA)
So-called discrete burning occurs when a piece of fuel ignites and burns completely due to the heat created by other fuel elements around it. Unlike traditional...
'Uncharted territory' as bushfires rage across Australia's east
Nov 08, 2019 (AFP)
Around a hundred blazes pockmarked the New South Wales and Queensland countryside, around 19 of them dangerous and uncontained. "We have never seen this many fi...
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