Eastcott Street, Yarloop, before and after the bushfires Johnston Road, Yarloop, before and after the bushfires Barrington Knight Road, Yarloop, before and after the bushfires The town of Yarloop, before and after the bushfires
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Read more about Australia&aposs fires:Here&aposs how the Australia bushfires startedI fled the bushfires in Australia and photographed the whole thing.
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Read more:The bushfires in Australia are so big they&aposre generating their own weather — &apospyrocumulonimbus&apos thunderstorms that can start more firesEerie photos capture blood-red skies as bushfires rage across Australia and trap thousandsTerrifying video shows the moment a rescue crew in Australia were overrun by bushfires and were forced to seek shelter in their truckPhotos of a koala hospital in Australia show just how devastating recent bushfires have been for the iconic marsupial
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This summer bushfires have swept across Australia, burning through almost 12 million hectares, destroying more than 2,500 homes and killing 33 people, in some of the worst bushfires in decades.
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The models not only hadn't predicted that bushfires of this magnitude could happen now, they hadn't even predicted that bushfires of this magnitude could happen in the next 80 years.
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Terrifying video shows the moment a rescue crew in Australia were overrun by bushfires and were forced to seek shelter in their truckEerie photos capture blood-red skies as bushfires rage across Australia and trap thousandsThe bushfires in Australia are so big they&aposre generating their own weather — &apospyrocumulonimbus&apos thunderstorms that can start more fires
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Read more:Eerie photos capture blood-red skies as bushfires rage across Australia and trap thousands28 photos show the reality for firefighters and residents battling hundreds of deadly Australian bushfires that are raining ash onto major cities and destroying homesThe bushfires in Australia are so big they&aposre generating their own weather — &apospyrocumulonimbus&apos thunderstorms that can start more fires
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Telstra also said it recorded one-off costs for bushfires of around A$10 million during the first half, adding that it expected the total impact of bushfires to be A$50 million.
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Never before have bushfires struck Australia on such a scale.
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High temperatures and low rainfall make bushfires a natural hazard.
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Now, all bushfires have been extinguished in New South Wales.
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Whitehaven Coal, another company hurt by bushfires, dropped about 1.6%.
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Recent heavy rains have dampened many of the monthslong bushfires.
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Unprecedented, deadly bushfires have raged across Australia since September 2019.
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Photographing bushfires is exhausting because your body is in overdrive.
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Knitted pouches for joeys affected by Australia bushfires, Jan. 6.
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Enormous bushfires are raging across swathes of land in Australia.
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Extensive bushfires have killed 23 people since September, Morrison said.
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The bushfires creating these weather events are fueled by drought.
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A smoke haze from bushfires blankets Sydney on Dec. 19.
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Read more:Steve Irwin&aposs family announces it has saved 90,000 animals in Australia, and says admissions are surging as bushfires rage onAustralia&aposs bushfires are producing so much smoke that NASA expects it to travel all the way around the world and return to AustraliaThe bushfires in Australia are so big they&aposre generating their own weather — &apospyrocumulonimbus&apos thunderstorms that can start more firesSurreal photos show smoke from Australia&aposs bushfires turning the sky in New Zealand orange — 1,200 miles away
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Parched landscapes, in turn, lead to more frequent and destructive bushfires.
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EVEN FOR A country accustomed to bushfires, the scenes look apocalyptic.
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Australia's bushfires continue to burn, and the toll just keeps climbing.
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Smoke from nearby bushfires mixed with dust blown off overgrazed paddocks.
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Managing bushfires is the responsibility of state governments and fire services.
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Australia&aposs bushfires erupted amid exceptionally hot and dry conditions there.
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Other signs focused on the wildlife devastation wreaked by the bushfires.
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By this point, the bushfires were so ferocious that many of
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Bushfires in Australia have destroyed the country&aposs wildlife and nature.
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Read all of Insider&aposs coverage of the Australian bushfires here.
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Climate change doesn&apost create bushfires, but can make them worse.
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It also announced the creation of a federal bushfires response agency.
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Read more:Eerie photos capture blood-red skies as bushfires rage across Australia and trap thousands 28 photos show the reality for firefighters and residents battling hundreds of deadly Australian bushfires that are raining ash onto major cities and destroying homesThe bushfires in Australia are so big they&aposre generating their own weather — &apospyrocumulonimbus&apos thunderstorms that can start more fires
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"Bushfires, particularly in Victoria, have also been terrible for them," Mella said.
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"There are also the bushfires and how they've distorted activity," he said.
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Bushfires started by lightning raged across Tasmania's north and west from Jan.
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Did you have to evacuate or prepare for the bushfires this week?
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Six people have been killed by the bushfires which officials called "unprecedented."
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Since September, bushfires have razed an estimated 25 million acres in Australia.
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The bushfires hit the Blue Mountains in New South Wales particularly hard.
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Nearly half a billion animals have been killed in Australia's devastating bushfires.
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"I don't think drought and bushfires are going away," Dr. Meagher said.
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In actuality, only 24 people have been charged with deliberately lighting bushfires.
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Since September 2019, bushfires have continuously ravaged Australia's forests, bush, and parks.
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Ash from bushfires washes up on a beach in Merimbula, Jan. 5.
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A swimmer holds ash from bushfires on Balmoral Beach in Sydney, Dec.
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Just 287 of those have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires.
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Bushfires usually spread faster depending on the humidity, topography, wind, and temperature.
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There are many ways you can help those impacted by the bushfires.
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Australians haven't seen anything like the bushfires currently tearing through their country.
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Behind him, light from the bushfires suffused the sky like fresh blood.
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Australia had its hottest, driest year ever - a precursor to the bushfires.
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The Australian bushfires claimed the lives of 27 people and destroyed 2,000 homes.
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People are worried about food security, the Great Barrier Reef and more bushfires.
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The Canadian-owned aircraft was helping fight Australia's bushfires when it went down.
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Rain arrived last week, giving weary Australians a break from fighting the bushfires.
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Bushfires are common during Australia's summer but this fire season started unusually early.
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What will be required to protect us from the bushfires of the future?
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Since September, unprecedented bushfires have razed an estimated 25 million acres in Australia.
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Bushfires this season have killed at least 10 people, and 28 remain missing.
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In Australia, ongoing bushfires have burned about 10.3 million hectares (0.13,000 sq km).
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Smoke from the bushfires ravaging Australia will encircle the globe, NASA said Tuesday.
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" Simply put, "the more prescribed burning we do, the less bushfires we have.
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When we left on December 27 bushfires were devastating Sydney and its surroundings.
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Scientists are linking the increase in the severity of bushfires to climate change.
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London (CNN Business)Australia has been devastated by its worst bushfires in decades.
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Already, 6 lives have been lost and almost 700 homes destroyed by bushfires.
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You just need to think about the Victorian bushfires in Australia in 2009.
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Over the weekend, the bushfires triggered mass evacuations in parts of the country.
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The bushfires have reached "catastrophic" levels and reduced air quality to unsafe levels.
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Huge bushfires have torched 14.5 million acres since September, killing at least 18.
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Actress Cate Blanchett called the bushfires a "global disaster" while presenting an award.
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Thick smoke from bushfires fills the air in eastern Gippsland on Jan. 2.
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The bushfires in southeastern Australia are raging on with no sign of stopping.
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Bushfires are continuing to rage across southeastern Australia with no end in sight.
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The unprecedented bushfires have been fuelled by hot, dry conditions across the country.
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Terrifying video shows the moment a rescue crew in Australia were overrun by bushfires and were forced to seek shelter in their truckFood and fuel are running out in parts of Australia as raging bushfires push it toward a humanitarian crisis.
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Eighty bushfires burn across northern Tasmania on January 21st, 2016, via NASAThis isn't normal.
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The bushfires have killed koalas, and smoke has reduced air quality to unsafe levels.
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Australia is prone to extreme weather events such as flooding, tropical cyclones and bushfires.
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Jalu was rescued from the NSW bushfires and cared for at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital.
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Aerial photographs show the ashen remains of a Western Australian town destroyed by bushfires.
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One expert predicted that the bushfires could be a 'big drag' on Australia's growth.
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Australia&aposs deadly bushfires sparked in September 2019 and have been blazing ever since.
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Some of these unpaid firefighters have spent over 100 days fighting the current bushfires.
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With no end to the bushfires in sight, such calls are bound to grow. ■
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The bushfires took hold of Kangaroo Island, Australia's third largest island, on January 4.
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A professor estimated this week that a billion animals had died in the bushfires.
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Glaciers in New Zealand have turned brown from the bushfires' smoke, ash, and dust.
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A rescue team wanders Fitzgerald's property to retrieve koalas who are affected by bushfires.
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And while summer bushfires are nothing new in Australia, scientists say these are different.
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Bushfires swept through Mogo on New Year's Eve 2019, destroying several homes and businesses.
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The bushfires currently tearing through Australia are enormous, deadly, and in many cases unprecedented.
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Read more: Thousands of troops being called to help as bushfires rage across Australia.
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Australia has been battling huge bushfires, mostly across its east coast, for several weeks.
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That's according to Justin Leonard, a researcher dedicated to understanding bushfires and land management.
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Bushfires are common in Australia but the season has started much earlier than usual.
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Bushfires throughout the Australian territory of New South Wales have devastated its koala population.
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Bushfires have killed at least 20 people and half a billion animals since September.
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In nearby Victoria, 17 people remain missing as bushfires rage through the Gippsland region.
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"Look how rapid these bushfires, these droughts, all these things have come in a short period of time," Folau said at the end of a week in which out-of-control bushfires killed four people and destroyed 437 homes across two states.
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The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria killed 173 people and injured more than 400.
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Anderson: In just the past couple of months, we've seen these incredible bushfires in Australia.
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With an initial $2 billion, the agency will support rebuilding efforts after the devastating bushfires.
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Many foreign exchange investors are increasingly betting that the bushfires will hurt the country's economy.
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The apocalyptic scenes took over southeastern Australia, the region most affected by the ongoing bushfires.
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Australia&aposs smoke from spaceSatellites have tracked the growth of Australia&aposs bushfires for weeks.
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"People have forgotten our past — that we have had bushfires equivalent to this," he said.
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The bushfires ravaging Australia have devastated 25 million acres and killed nearly one billion animals.
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Smoke from the bushfires surrounding Melbourne has caused problems for numerous players during qualifying matches.
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Kangaroos gather on a residential lawn as bushfires continue to spread in Berrara Beach, Dec.
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The carcass of a kangaroo lies after Kangaroo Island was ravaged by bushfires, Jan. 22019.
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"The ongoing bushfires are an ecological disaster," the government panel members wrote in a Jan.
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In the last five months, bushfires have razed an estimated 103 million acres in Australia.
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The ecological toll of this year's bushfires offers a disturbing preview of Australia's pyrotechnic future.
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An estimated 2,700 firefighters, including volunteers, are now on the ground to stop the bushfires.
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Our apps told us that bushfires were far away and would not impact our plans.
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Bushfires have killed 23 people and destroyed more than 1,500 homes since September, Morrison confirmed.
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The rising heat from the intense bushfires creates massive, powerful clouds called pyrocumulonimbus, or pyroCb.
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And it contributed, without proper respect and care of the land, to these destructive bushfires.
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Beyond the flames, the bushfires have also shrouded major Australian cities in dangerous air pollution.
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The natural beauty and city sites draw in visitors, despite the bushfires raging in Australia.
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Australia is just beginning to recover from being devastated by the worst bushfires in decades.
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These pictures show how Australia has been dealing with the ongoing bushfires in recent days.
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Australians have been choking on smoke for weeks as enormous bushfires rage across the country.
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More than a billion animals are feared dead in Australia's bushfiresAustralian babies are being born in smoke-filled hospitals as hundreds of bushfires burn across the countryI fled the bushfires in Australia, spent New Year's Eve in an emergency shelter, and photographed the whole thing.
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The devastating bushfires in New South Wales, Australia, have finally all been contained, officials announced Thursday.
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Hundreds of koalas may have died in Australia this week from bushfires raging across the country.
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In the short term, the bushfires and the coronavirus outbreak will temporarily weigh on domestic growth.
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Three people died earlier this week because of bushfires, but no lives were lost on Tuesday.
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An aircraft was diverted to drop fire retardants on bushfires threatening homes in Sydney's northern suburbs.
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Those bushfires weren't just unprecedented—models didn't even predict they could happen for another 80 years.
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Smoke from the massive bushfires raging in Australia is turning the sky in New Zealand orange.
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The men were in Australia helping battle the deadly bushfires that are raging across the country.
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Here's what they're seeing so far: How you can help people impacted by bushfires in Australia:
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The scale and intensity of the Australian bushfires crisis is hard to wrap your head around.
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Officials in the state of Victoria have also refuted arson as a major cause of bushfires.
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The bushfires have left 26 people dead and killed or injured an estimated one billion animals.
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Australia's bushfires that have killed 21.37 people and an estimated 1 billion native animals since September.
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Trending up: Facebook disaster maps are helping organizations like Direct Relief respond to the Australia bushfires.
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More than a billion animals are believed to be dead across Australia as bushfires rage on.
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Animals are seen in Cobargo, as bushfires continue in New South Wales, Australia on January 5.
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Bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres) across Australia in recent weeks.
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"Our hearts go out to all Australians as they cope with these devastating bushfires," Bezos said.
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There are currently 100 bushfires raging across the state, half of which remain out of control.
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Firefighters fighting more than 100 bushfires are bracing for more "extreme heatwave conditions" early next week.
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Bushfires burn in the distance as children play on a beach in Forster on Nov. 9.
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I am totally devastated watching what is happening in Australia right now with the horrific bushfires.
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Bushfires have been spreading across Australia since late 2019, destroying homes and killing millions of animals.
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The bushfires have claimed lives, destroyed homes, and are thought to have killed millions of animals.
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GRAPHIC: How smoke from Australia's bushfires has spread - here Following are some highlights of what is happening in the bushfire crisis: ** About 80% of the Greater Blue Mountains that are on the World Heritage List of protected designations have been lost to the bushfires, Australian media reported.
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Firefighters there were battling 81 grass and bushfires on Thursday, 38 of which remained uncontained, authorities said.
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Yet, it expected rebuilding following the bushfires to boost growth in the second half of the year.
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It's just a matter of surviving bushfires and logging, which still bizarrely continue through the national park.
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Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers, fueled by highly flammable eucalyptus.
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GRAPHIC: Sizing up Australia's bushfires - here Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Edwina Gibbs
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We knew bushfires were affecting other communities about 603 kilometers away, but we believed we were fine.
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Smoke from deadly bushfires already has cut into the competition at the Grand Slam event, which begins.
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Bushfires are currently raging across Australia's east coast, and they are burning right through prime koala habitat.
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Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon is donating $690,000 to help the country recover from the devastating bushfires.
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Heavy rain fell on Melbourne on Wednesday, bringing some respite to bushfires victims and the tennis players.
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Morrison announced The National Emergency Medal will be awarded to emergency responders battling the 2019-20 bushfires.
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Insurers have also been hit by a series of hurricanes and, more recently, intense bushfires in Australia.
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Two especially large patches of bushfires (shown just southwest of the center) stretch dozens of miles long.
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Since September, bushfires have killed 18 people and destroyed more than 1,303 homes across NSW and Victoria.
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Tens of thousands of Australians rallied across cities as deadly climate-fuelled bushfires swept across the country.
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As the country deals with deadly bushfires and record-breaking heat waves, wildlife there has been devastated.
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If the bushfires also killed off the scavengers, the risk of transmission and potential epidemics goes up.
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Today I fast and pray for some personal help and for Australia as it experiences devastating bushfires.
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Smoke from Australia's massive bushfires, which have been burning since September, has now officially circled the globe.
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Lush is selling soap shaped like koalas to raise money for animals affected by Australia&aposs bushfires.
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Koala-sniffing dogs are helping to save animals in Australia's bushfires These are some very good boys.
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A firefighter conducts back-burning measures to secure residential areas from encroaching bushfires near Sydney, Dec. 103.
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Bushfires continue to devastate Australia, destroying homes, smothering cities in smoke, and killing people and wildlife alike.
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And even amid the haze from bushfires, Sydney's New Year's fireworks show will go ahead as planned.
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The Australia bushfires are generating "pyrocumulonimbus" clouds, which create their own thunderstorms that can start more fires.
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Ecologists fear up to 9,000 koalas may have died in the recent bushfires, according to The Independent.
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Six people have died in the bushfires in the eastern states of Queensland and New South Wales.
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Residents watch as bushfires burn through farmland near the small town of Nana Glen on Nov. 12.
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As hundreds of bushfires continue to burn across Australia, babies are being delivered at smoke-filled hospitals.
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Nearly half a billion animals are believed to be dead in the bushfires still spreading across Australia.
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Specialized sensors on satellites that can see through the thick smoke are recording the bushfires&apos spread.
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Though Australia does experience bushfires every year, there have been none on this scale in recorded history.
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Evacuations: People in Batemans Bay, NSW, have evacuated to the beach to escape bushfires, per 9 News.
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Here is a timelapse of a pyrocumulonimbus storm in action, from a different Australian fire:Read more:Australia&aposs bushfires are so bad authorities have to abandon large areas, warning thousands that they could be trapped in the blaze&aposs pathPhotos of a koala hospital in Australia show just how devastating recent bushfires have been for the iconic marsupial28 photos show the reality for firefighters and residents battling hundreds of deadly Australian bushfires that are raining ash onto major cities and destroying homes
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A cat, thought to have been killed in severe bushfires that ravaged Australia, has reappeared after 24 days.
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The catastrophic rating was introduced in 2009 following the so-called Black Saturday bushfires that killed 173 people.
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Firefighters described the past season of bushfires as "very traumatic, exhausting, and anxious," according to the CNN report.
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Skies turned bright red on the beach in southeast Australia on Sunday as deadly bushfires continue to burn.
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Photos published by ABC show cows dead on the sides of roads and in the midst of bushfires.
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There have been thousands of bushfires burning across Australia since September, scorching an area larger than West Virginia.
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Colley hopes that other parents and children can find ways to help with those affected by the bushfires.
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Others have pointed to the climate emergency, the bushfires in Australia, and homeless children, as far worthier causes.
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"I am totally devastated watching what is happening in Australia right now with the horrific bushfires," she tweeted.
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Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers, fueled by highly flammable eucalyptus trees.
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Bega Cheese Ltd slumped 9.3% slump as bushfires raging across Australia impacted its dairy farm suppliers and employees.
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Thousands of people could be trapped by Australia&aposs raging bushfires after they did not heed evacuation warnings.
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In Australia, the bushfires have burned at least 2628 million acres and taken the lives of 28503 people.
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The bushfires that have been burning in many parts of Australia have blanketed Melbourne in a smoke haze.
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NSW state has been one of the hardest hit by bushfires, which started earlier than usual in September.
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A horse tries to evade the nearby bushfires at a residential property near the town of Nowra, Dec.
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It also booked a 150 million euro impairment charge in Australia, which was ravaged by bushfires in December.
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"[These bushfires] are not going to be so unprecedented in future years," said the University of Wollongong's Eriksen.
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The bushfires are expected to continue for months, with Australia forecasting below-average rainfall at least until March.
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However, the bushfires have forced the hospital to shift focus to caring for koalas affected by the fire.
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So far, bushfires have burnt at least three million hectares (7.4 million acres) in New South Wales alone.
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The Australian government on Monday announced a $2 billion recovery fund to rebuild areas affected by the bushfires.
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Australian bushfires sparked in September have spread for months, leading to a state of emergency in many regions.
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An Australian zookeeper took home monkeys, pandas, and a tiger in order to keep them safe from bushfires
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Read more:Here are 8 ways you can donate money to Australia&aposs bushfire relief effortAustralian babies are being born in smoke-filled hospitals as hundreds of bushfires burn across the countryI fled the bushfires in Australia, spent New Year&aposs Eve in an emergency shelter, and photographed the whole thing.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge will auction her Golden Globes suit to raise money for Australian bushfire reliefMargot Robbie posted an emotional video about the Australian bushfires ahead of the Golden GlobesSteve Irwin&aposs family announces it has saved 90,000 animals in Australia, and says admissions are surging as bushfires rage on
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Bushfires have killed 33 people, an estimated 1 billion native animals and destroyed land nearly the size of Greece.
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Over 250,000 acres of forest have been scorched by the bushfires, including parts of Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area.
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Bushfires are generally slower moving than grassfires, and are an "intrinsic part of Australia's environment," according to Geoscience Australia.
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For the first time in over 240 days, the Australian state of New South Wales is free from bushfires.
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That's compounded by the lasting impact from the local bushfires that forced tens of thousands to evacuate their homes.
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The Australian government announced a $2 billion recovery fund on Monday that will help rebuild areas damaged by bushfires.
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An estimated third of the koala population was killed in the bushfires, and those that escaped are now recovering.
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The latest World Economic Forum annual meeting takes place against the backdrop of some of Australia's worst ever bushfires.
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Smoke from bushfires that affected qualifying has dissipated and Victoria's Environmental Protection Agency rated the air quality as good.
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There are other kinds of misinformation about the bushfires spreading as well, such as misleading maps of fire damage.
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As 216 million acres of Australia burned in record bushfires between September and January, Australian teens turned to TikTok.
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Amid the raging bushfires in South Wales, Australia, a hero emerged to save the life of a young koala.
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Climate change is threatening Australia's beloved koalas, with bushfires so far this year killing more than 1,000 of them.
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The qualifying tournament was disrupted because of smoke from the bushfires that have devastated large swaths of the country.
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Australia's dollar sunk 0.9% to $0.6876 as markets worried about the economic impact of deadly bushfires ravaging the country.
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"Our hearts go out to all Australians as they cope with these devastating bushfires," he said in the announcement.
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Australia has been grappling with severe drought and bushfires that have hit livestock and scorched huge swathes of land.
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This time around, as we're watching the devastation caused by the Australian bushfires, things turned out a little differently.
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Local aboriginal man Anthony Thomas is seen at his uncle's property, destroyed by bushfires, in Kiah on January 8.
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So far, the bushfires have chewed through more than twice the area that burned in Amazon's rainforests during 2019.
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The CFS provides financial assistance to volunteer firefighters in the state, where two people have died in the bushfires.
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Neighboring Queensland state was battling some 45 bushfires and temperatures on Saturday as high as 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
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It is believed the heat, low humidity, and strong winds are all contributing to the intensity of the bushfires.
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The bushfires grew to become one huge mega fire, burning over 3,000 square km (1,158 square miles) of land.
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And as the climate changes, the underlying conditions for Australian bushfires will continue to amplify, namely heat and dryness.
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If powerful enough, a pyrocumulonimbus storm can generate a fire tornado, which happened during the Canberra bushfires in 2003.
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But since the bushfires started, the koala hospital has been overwhelmed by the number of injured koalas requiring care.
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Bushfires have left at least four people dead and destroyed more than 400 homes since the start of November.
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Scientists said current heat models for Australia "clearly underestimate the trend" for more devastating bushfires as climate change strengthens.
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That's how many acres of land had been scorched by bushfires in Australia since September, as of last week.
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The crisis in Australia is worsening as unprecedented bushfires cut thousands of people off from food, water, and fuel.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is reportedly auctioning off her Golden Globes suit to raise money to fight the Australian bushfires.
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The firm added that second-half results will be affected as bushfires hurt bookings during the peak summer holiday period.
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"The recovery will see new ecosystemes that are effectively the response to more bushfires and a drier climate," Cox said.
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Many companies have already flagged potential losses from the bushfires, which have claimed 33 lives and destroyed over 2,500 homes.
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A white horse trots on the field where a farmhouse was burnt by bushfires near Port Macquarie on Nov. 11,.
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Story at a glance Bushfires on Australia's east coast, fueled by climate change, have been given a "catastrophic" fire rating.
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Hundreds of koalas have been burnt to a crisp in this year's unusually devastating seasonal bushfires in the Australian grasslands.
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The number of animals feared dead in Australia&aposs devastating bushfires has soared from 500,000 to more than 1 billion.
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Steve Irwin's family announces it has saved 90,000 animals in Australia, and says admissions are surging as bushfires rage on.
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First, the 343 million number applied to NSW alone, and the bushfires have since spread to the state of Victoria.
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"The negative impact of bushfires is more enduring than other disasters like floods," said Michael Blythe, chief economist at CBA.
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But Glenn, for one, has witnessed firsthand the devastation that these bushfires have wrought on the native flora and fauna.
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The main cause of fire ignitions of Australia's bushfires is dry lightning, essentially lightning from thunderstorms that don't produce rain.
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have donated half a million dollars to help fight the ongoing bushfires raging through Australia.
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Eventually, they'd like to integrate images from other satellites, so they can help prevent incidents like the bushfires in Australia.
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The New Zealand dairy company also said exports from Australia dropped 9.5% in December as the country suffered devastating bushfires.
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Dozens of American firefighters arrived in Sydney, Australia on Thursday to lend a hand in fighting the country&aposs bushfires.
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The bushfires follow a three-year drought that experts link to climate change and that has left bushland tinder-dry.
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This week, the estimated number of animals feared dead in Australia&aposs devastating bushfires soared to more than 1 billion.
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Tonight, we are illuminating the Sydney Opera House sails to show our support for everyone affected by the Australian bushfires.
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Ecosystems under long-term observation have burned to the ground, and bushfires have destroyed facilities and vehicles critical to research.
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But Kathryn and James Murdoch are not the only to speak out about News Corp&aposs coverage of the bushfires.
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There are several ways to help — many organizations are taking donations to support rescuers and others affected by the bushfires.
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On Thursday he visited the small town of Cobargo, which was ravaged by bushfires which killed two residents this week.
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Read more:Food and fuel are running out in parts of Australia as raging bushfires push it toward a humanitarian crisis.
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So we're actually entering a season where heatwaves can be quite common and typically large bushfires can continue to burn.
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Notably, his decision to go on holiday to Hawaii last month as the bushfires continued to blaze caused mass outrage.
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Thousands of people in Australia are being urged to flee their homes as bushfires ravage huge swaths of the country.
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The bushfires blazing across parts of Australia&aposs east coast have claimed lives, destroyed homes and killed millions of animals.
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And this year's bushfires make that meaning even more significant — and the need for allies to show solidarity more urgent.
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"I am totally devastated watching what is happening in Australia right now with the horrific bushfires," Pink said on Twitter.
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Earlier in January, Lush began selling soaps shaped like koalas to raise money for animals affected by Australia&aposs bushfires.
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Paws for a cause 🐨 An estimated one billion animals have perished since the bushfires in Australia began last September.
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Parts of Australia's capital, Canberra, were reportedly briefly evacuated Wednesday due to the bushfires that have been devastating the country.
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Should the carbon majors be on the hook for some of the costs associated with climate disasters like the bushfires?
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More than 350 koalas were feared to have been killed by bushfires in New South Wales, according to animal experts.
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The sky glowed red in parts of Australia as bushfires burned across the states of New South Wales and Victoria.
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"Climate change is exacerbating every risk factor for more frequent and intense bushfires," Dr Dominey-Howes told Business Insider Australia.
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Bushfires in Australia have killed at least four people and destroyed more than 680 homes since the start of November.
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An overheated kangaroo took a dip inside a family&aposs pool in order to escape the bushfires raging through Australia.
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British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has warned tourists be careful, saying there is bushfires in Australia and many residents evacuated.
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We are still having to cover all the standard things like industrial accidents and rescues as well as the bushfires.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologized this month for taking a vacation to Hawaii during the recent heatwave and bushfires.
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As Australia continues to face extreme heat and bushfires, videos of koalas being given water have spread across social media.
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Most recently, stars like Cate Blanchett and Ellen DeGeneres spoke about the bushfires during the 2020 Golden Globes on Sunday.
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An influencer who launched a nudes-for-donations plan to help fight the Australian bushfires says she has raised $2400,4006.
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A kangaroo tries to escape from nearby bushfires at a residential property near the town of Nowra on Dec. 219.
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Read more:Photos of a koala hospital in Australia show just how devastating recent bushfires have been for the iconic marsupialTerrifying video shows a &aposfire tornado&apos ripping through the Australian countryside as devastating fires ravage the countryAn Australian zookeeper took home monkeys, pandas, and a tiger in order to keep them safe from bushfires
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The Australian bushfires destroyed over 28,000 acres of land and the natural habitats of some of the country's most beloved wildlife.
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Battered by extended droughts, damaging floods, and more bushfires, Australian voters were expected to hand a mandate to the Labor party.
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Winds gusting up to 5003 kmh (44 mph) also fanned major bushfires along the east coast, threatening homes and forcing evacuations.
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The U.S. firefighters who volunteered to help Australia battle its unprecedented bushfires have just returned home after about a month abroad.
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Story at a glance More than 100 active bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, brought catastrophic conditions on Tuesday.
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Bushfires burning across New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland states have already killed three people and destroyed more than 150 homes.
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Bushfires burning across New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland states have already killed three people and destroyed more than 150 homes.
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Dry and hot northwesterly winds coming from Australia's desert center, some up to 75 kilometers an hour, were fanning the bushfires.
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Still, Australian officials have been quiet on the links between climate change and bushfires that are intensifying as Australia approaches summer.
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"This will add to the downside risks to growth in the first half of 2020 stemming from the bushfires," they added.
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Then, in January, rain washed soil and ash from the bushfires into the Macleay River, causing thousands of fish to die.
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The smoke from the bushfires has shrouded much of Australia's southeastern coast, suffusing cities with a crimson and dark orange glow.
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There is little respite on the horizon this week, and the worst health impacts of these bushfires is yet to come.
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Australia's bushfires have released 28 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
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However, Australia's elected leaders have been reluctant to confront the country's contributions to climate change, a major factor in the bushfires.
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"However, the severe storms that have been experienced over eastern Australia recently are not directly related to the bushfires," Eadie noted.
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After choking smoke from recent bushfires and torrential rains, players at Melbourne Park on Wednesday had to contend with swirling winds.
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Scores of people and millions of animals are known to have died in bushfires that have raged across Australia for months.
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We care about the environment and the bushfires in Australia are also directly affecting members of our extended global OnlyFans family.
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In fact, some of the bushfires have grown so large they have created their own thunderstorms, in turn producing more lightning.
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He noted that all proceeds will go to the emergency teams that are fighting the "bushfires we're currently seeing across NSW."
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Since the fire season began in late July, large swaths of Australia have been devastated by the worst bushfires in decades.
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Letter 145 At a time when bushfires are threatening Australian identity, losing the Holden brand feels like an especially cruel blow.
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"I am totally devastated watching what is happening in Australia right now with the horrific bushfires," Pink tweeted early Saturday morning.
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Australia has also been withering under a fierce drought; indeed, it was that lack of moisture that supercharged this season's bushfires.
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Though the country experiences some bushfires every year, these conditions brought about by climate change have exacerbated them to catastrophic levels.
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The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital The organisation has a GoFundMe page that seeks funding for Koalas affected by the bushfires.8.
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Bushfires burned on the outskirts of Sydney, cloaking the harbor city in smoke ahead of a New Year's Eve fireworks display.
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Last week, the skin-care company began selling koala-shaped soap to raise money for animals affected by Australia&aposs bushfires.
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Australia&aposs Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologized for vacationing in Hawaii while bushfires are engulfing three states in his country.
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Bushfires were devastating nearby towns and now threatened Yanderra, a small village with just over 600 people located south of Sydney.
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Six people have now died in bushfires which have destroyed more than 3.7 million hectares (9.1 million acres) across five states.
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Read more:I fled the bushfires in Australia, spent New Year&aposs Eve in an emergency shelter, and photographed the whole thing.
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Bushfires in Blanchett&aposs home state of Victoria have killed at least two people and destroyed the coastal town of Mallacoota.
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The smoke from the Australian bushfires is literally blotting out the sky and reducing visibility in a country an ocean away.
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Filmed on South Australia&aposs Kangaroo Island, the video shows the terrifying weather event, created as high winds combine with bushfires.
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That, however, was not enough for many people in towns razed by bushfires and some of the firefighters tackling the blazes.
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A desperate kangaroo snuck into a family&aposs pool in order to escape the bushfires raging through Australia28 photos show the reality for firefighters and residents battling hundreds of deadly Australian bushfires that are raining ash onto major cities and destroying homesAustralia&aposs Prime Minister is sorry he went on vacation to Hawaii amid his country&aposs wildfire crisis
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A total fire ban is in place across the whole state for the weekend, as authorities seek to prevent new bushfires igniting.
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Bushfires are common in Australia in the summer months, especially in areas of outback where the land is especially hot and dry.
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Adding to the gloom, the bushfires and a fast spreading virus in China - Australia's top trading partner - are further threatening broader activity.
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In contrast, in Australia's northern state of Queensland, soaring temperatures near 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and strong winds exacerbated major bushfires.
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Devastating photos give a small insight into the impact of catastrophic bushfires currently raging across Australia's eastern state of New South Wales.
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Catastrophic bushfires have burned two million acres, displaced thousands and killed at least four people — and they're also threatening Australia's iconic marsupial.
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The union criticised the move given the risks the economy already faces from the coronavirus epidemic and the hit from the bushfires.
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Australia has been battling devastating bushfires that have ravaged large swathes of land across the country, damaging property and impacting business activity.
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The bushfires have burned approximately 25.7 million acres of land and emitted more than 400 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
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The severity of this year's fires is unparalleled, says conservation biologist Sarah Legge, who studies the impacts of feral cats after bushfires.
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But awareness has certainly been raised by now after months of bushfires and a week of doubt and debate at Melbourne Park.
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On Sunday, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon will donate $690,000 ($1 million Australian) in assistance to wildfire recovery after Australia's devastating bushfires.
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Those, and the rising frequency of bushfires in some areas, could make recovery increasingly difficult for Australia's normally resilient forests, scientists predict.
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After the Black Saturday bushfires devastated his community, Sheahan's decision was vindicated as his home was the only one to remain standing.
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Bushfires have burned millions of acres across Australia in recent weeks, killing an estimated 28500 billion animals and more than 6900 people.
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"I am totally devastated watching what is happening in Australia right now with the horrific bushfires," the Pennsylvania native wrote on Twitter.
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But though they're struggling through the smoke, many food delivery riders are still thinking of those most directly impacted by Australia's bushfires.
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Prior to this deployment, California sent 20 skilled firefighters abroad to help Australia fight the bushfires that have decimated millions of acres.
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Their technology could even, in the future, be used to alert for coming bushfires by sensing the changed behavior of the bees.
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Australian sportsmen and women have joined actors, popstars and Britain's royal family in pledging financial support for those affected by the bushfires.
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Roughly one billion animals, many of them endangered and already at risk, have now died in the Australian bushfires, experts have estimated.
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The posts seized on reports that New South Wales police had charged 24 people with deliberately lighting bushfires so far this season.
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Why Aboriginal techniques are so difficult to implement Setting smaller, low-intensity fires to prevent larger bushfires may sound like common sense.
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Nearly 48 million acres have been destroyed by Australia's bushfires, which are still burning despite the country having finally received some rain.
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The political fallout from the unprecedented scale of the bushfires has pressured the conservative government to reconsider its policies on climate change.
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Australia's worst bushfires on record destroyed thousands of homes in Victoria state in February 2009, killing 173 people and injuring 414 more.
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Sydney has been blanketed in thick smoke on and off for the past few weeks due to severe bushfires surrounding the city.
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These were the effects of winds that merged a number of bushfires into a single gigantic blaze north of Australia's largest city.
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The oppressive heatwave, persistent lack of rain, and high winds are creating "catastrophic" conditions, dangerously feeding Australia's already out-of-control bushfires.
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Demonstrators gather outside PM Scott Morrison's house in Sydney to ask #wherethebloodyhellareya and demand climate action as Australia faces unprecedented bushfires pic.twitter.
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Smoke from bushfires has taken over Sydney, the air so thick it set off smoke alarms in the Australian city on Tuesday.
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Next up, galleries on raging bushfires in Australia and historic flooding in Venice show how climate change is affecting our world today.
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The floods follow weeks of unrelenting heat across Australia, which caused mass animal die-offs, raging bushfires, and prolonged and severe drought.
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During the Golden Globes award ceremony on Sunday, multiple celebrities also spoke out about the bushfires and pushed for climate change reform.
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Margot Robbie spent the morning of the 2020 Golden Globes reflecting on her childhood in the wake of the devastating Australian bushfires.
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A firefighter hoses down trees and flying embers in an effort to secure nearby houses from bushfires near Nowra on Dec. 222.
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The European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellite took this image of growing bushfires while passing over Bateman Bay on New Year's Eve.
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A video posted earlier this week showed a rescue crew being overrun by bushfires and forced to seek shelter in their truck.
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Although bushfires are common in Australia during the hot spring and summer months, this year's bushfire season has been the worst on record.
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In December Australia's environment minister said that up to 30% of koalas along the New South Wales coast had died killed in bushfires.
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They reckon a decline in bushfires, which release methane even richer in carbon-210 than natural gas, has been steeper than previously thought.
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The public may have had enough of experts, but as the winter bushfires in Australia show, that doesn't mean the experts are wrong.
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More than half of Australia is choking on smoke, and skies across the country glow orange as bushfires continue to ravage the continent.
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From the plant-based dinner to numerous speeches that mentioned the Australian bushfires, climate change was a major topic at the Golden Globes.
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There are several ways to help people in Australia — many organizations are taking donations to support rescuers and others affected by the bushfires.
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Australia's bushfires are producing so much smoke that NASA expects it to travel all the way around the world and return to Australia.
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Musicians, artists and sports personalities have held a number of relief events to help Australians who have been battling deadly bushfires since September.
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The Kangaroo Island dunnart, for example, is a tiny marsupial that appears to have lost 95 percent of its habitat to recent bushfires.
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Unprecedented bushfires have been ravaging the country for months, burning approximately 26 million acres, destroying over 2500 homes, and killing over 30 people.
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New images from NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who&aposs onboard the International Space Station, show the scale of the Australian bushfires from space.
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As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention.
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Swathes of the Wollemi National Park have been affected by the devastating bushfires and some of the precious pine trees have been charred.
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A new art installation in Sydney offers up a sobering look at the impact that hundreds of bushfires are having on the region.
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"The fact is that bushfires don't recognize state and territory boundaries," Albanese told reporters, according to a transcript provided by his media office.
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With bushfires still burning in the state of Victoria, the air quality in Melbourne could remain at these reported moderate to hazardous levels.
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Goldman Sachs analysts had expected JB Hi-Fi to benefit from higher air purifier sales as smoke from the bushfires shrouds big cities.
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Today in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers are publishing a series of articles as a kind of postmortem of the Australian bushfires.
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"The fact is that bushfires don't recognise state and territory boundaries," Albanese told reporters, according to a transcript provided by his media office.
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Australia&aposs raging bushfires are so bad that satellites thousands of miles above Earth can easily spot their flames and smoke from space.
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But in reality, it is an unimaginably painful day for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, especially in the wake of the bushfires.
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Mapped images of the ongoing bushfires in Australia and last summer's wildfires in the Amazon rainforest spread like, well, wildfire across the internet.
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Editor's Note: in the wake of the Australian bushfires (some of which is discussed below) 18.75 million acres of bush have been destroyed.
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Australia has been battling bushfires across its east coast that have killed 33 people and an estimated 1 billion native animals since September.
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More benign storms were forecast for Victoria, which has been hit this week already by severe storms and unhealthy smoke from the bushfires.
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Last week, smoke from bushfires surrounding the city was so bad that it set off smoke alarms and sent asthmatics to the hospital.
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Devastating bushfires have burned more than 4 million hectares (9.88 million acres) of land across five states and killed nine people since September.
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Bushfires across Australia's most populated state of New South Wales have killed three people and ravaged more than 27,212 square miles of land.
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Bushfires have been raging across Australia since late 2019, claiming at least 24 lives, destroying thousands of homes, and killing millions of animals.
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At the same time, record rainfall in New South Wales last winter led to high plant growth, providing ample fuel for bushfires to spread.
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The Australian government on Tuesday released a list of 113 animal species that need "emergency intervention" as devastating bushfires rip through their natural habitat.
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On February 7th 2009, out of control bushfires raged through Australia's New South Wales province, claiming 173 lives in the country's largest wildfire disaster.
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In late 2015, CASA had to remind people to keep the gadgets away from bushfires, despite the opportunity to take spectacular video and photos.
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Respondents were most worried about the impact of droughts and floods on food security, the fate of the Great Barrier Reef and more bushfires.
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Months after catastrophic bushfires burned large parts of Australia, there's a glimmer of good news in the midst of the globe's other current emergency.
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Australia is suffering through unprecedented deadly bushfires, and people from around the world have harnessed creative means to raise money toward the relief efforts.
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In the state of Victoria, thousands of people fled to the seashore on New Year's Eve as bushfires ringed the coastal town of Mallacoota.
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Safe-haven gold stocks fell 0.5% as the country's biggest gold producer Newcrest Mining reported lower quarterly output due to shutdowns and recent bushfires.
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All the unprecedented destruction of the bushfires this year has already caused Australians to once again seek answers on how to prevent future catastrophes.
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According to the New South Rural Fire Service, bushfires this year are unprecedented in size and scale for this point in the fire season.
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Political statements were made about climate change, for instance, but usually via the lens of support for those suffering from the bushfires in Australia.
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At the same time, the problems stemming from the blazes continue to mount: Australia now has to deal with internal refugees from the bushfires.
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Beyond the immediate destruction from the bushfires, Australians face other risks to their well-being — which will persist long after the fires are subdued.
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The rainfall helped relieve some of the areas affected by bushfires, according to the BBC, but the severe weather caused damage in other ways.
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The Bureau of Meteorology forecast rising temperatures in the state of Victoria on Wednesday, combined with strong winds, creating a new risk of bushfires.
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The US has announced it will send two more 20-person firefighting crews to fight the bushfires that are still burning out of control.
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You gotta see this We just love the creative stories of kindness from people who want to help those affected by the Australian bushfires.
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On Friday, the New Zealand dairy company said its exports from Australia fell 9.5% in December as devastating bushfires ravaged large swathes of land.
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Massive bushfires raging in Australia's New South Wales area may have killed up to 30 percent of the region's koalas, according to government officials.
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Devastating images of burned koalas and wallabies are emerging from Australia as 1 billion animals are feared deadAustralia&aposs bushfires are ravaging the country.
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New Zealanders have been shocked in recent months as ash from the bushfires in neighboring Australia turned its skies red and its glaciers brown.
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A volunteer holds a kangaroo with bandages wrapped around its burned feet after it was rescued from bushfires in the Blue Mountains area, Dec.
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If you haven't quite seen the fury of the catastrophic bushfires burning out-of-control across Australia up close yet, this may be it.
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At least 18 people have died as a result of the bushfires, with some 1,400 homes destroyed and millions of acres of land burned.
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Since September, bushfires have razed 14.6 million acres in Australia — more than twice the area that burned in the Amazon rainforest in August 2019.
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I spent my New Year&aposs Eve in an evacuation shelter alongside thousands of other residents and tourists as bushfires roared all around us.
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Firefighters got some relief thanks to cooler conditions on Thursday, after extreme temperatures once again escalated the bushfires around Sydney on New Year's Eve.
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Sydney has seen some of the poorest air quality of any international city in recent weeks as smoke from bushfires has blanketed the city.
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For Sunday's Golden Globes, that meant a lot of talk about the massive Australian bushfires, which are likely fueled in part by climate change.
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Nineteen people have been confirmed dead since the country's unprecedented bushfires began, with eight killed in the state of New South Wales since Monday.
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The harrowing scenes of bushfires and extreme weather in Australia in recent weeks are a stark reminder of the stakes of the climate crisis.
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A new video shows the unfathomable speed at which the Australian bushfires are spreading, completely overwhelming a firefighting crew in less than three minutes.
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Nearly half of the island, located in the country&aposs south, was burned in bushfires earlier this month, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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The rampant bushfires in Australia have weighed on insurers with Suncorp Group and Insurance Australia Group receiving claims of nearly A$400 million each.
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Thousands of weary firefighters, who have been battling bushfires for a month, were on Saturday fighting nearly 403 blazes in New South Wales state.
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In Sydney, firefighters took advantage of easing weather conditions on Sunday to bring bushfires under control ahead of the soaring temperatures expected this week.
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"Lewis" the koala, who was brought to international attention by a viral video of him being rescued from Australia's devastating bushfires, has been euthanised.
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As of Wednesday, the New South Wales Rural Fire Service reported there are 129 bushfires burning across southeastern region, 72 of which are uncontained.
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Southeast Australia is reeling from a series of "catastrophic" bushfires driven by high temperatures, low humidity and one of its worst droughts in decades.
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The Blue Mountains bushfires, which have been burning for weeks, have led to a sharp drop in tourist numbers which is hurting local businesses.
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Here are 28 photos that show the haunting reality of firefighters and residents battling bushfires currently raging through the state of New South Wales.
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Here are 28 photos that show the haunting reality of firefighters and residents battling bushfires currently raging through the state of New South Wales.
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Once a reliable allure to travelers across the globe, Australia's exotic wildlife and landmark tourist destinations have been severely damaged due to ravaging bushfires.
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I recently came back from assisting with the bushfires and I was only doing cardio, and I had put on a kilo or two.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Smoke from raging bushfires in Australia blanketed parts of neighboring New Zealand on Sunday, turning the sky over Auckland a bright orange.
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Australia has been battling hundreds of huge bushfires for several weeks with the resultant thick smoke regularly casting a pall over the country's cities.
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The family&aposs patients included "Blossom the possum," which was admitted after being caught in one of the bushfires in other parts of Queensland.
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Blossom the possum was admitted to the #AustraliaZoo Wildlife Hospital after being caught in one of the bushfires burning in other parts of Queensland.
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Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Patricia Arquette, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Pierce Brosnan, and Ellen DeGeneres all called attention to the bushfires during the awards ceremony.
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Been covering the Australian bushfires for the last 6 weeks, but haven't seen anything like yesterdays fire that decimated the town of Conjola, NSW.
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A terrifying video shows a so-called "fire tornado" forming on South Australia&aposs Kangaroo Island as the country is ravaged by devastating bushfires.
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Insurers are using drones to assess the damage caused by bushfires, so it seems only fair firefighters should get a couple of their own devices.
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The Australian government on Tuesday released a list of 113 animals it says need "emergency intervention" to keep going after devastating bushfires wrecked their habitats.
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New South Wales Rural Fire Service Inspector Ben Shepherd said the drought had had a "significant effect" on the bushfires and was set to continue.
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After a series of bushfires in 2006 and torrential rains in 23, huge amounts of ash and nitrogen rich soil were washed into Gippsland Lakes.
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They're the first of 12 koalas rescued from the Blue Mountains area during the bushfires, which have been sheltering at Sydney's Taronga Zoo since January.
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"The fact that we had bushfires in places that traditionally don't burn, like rain forests, I think was really an eye-opener," Dr. Rissik said.
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In the caption, she said she was donating 100% of the profits of her Saski Collection clothing line to emergency relief for the Australian bushfires.
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On Twitter, users also called Kylie Jenner a "hypocrite" for wearing fur in an Instagram story after she mourned animals dying in the Australian bushfires.
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Chris Dickman, an ecologist at the University of Sydney, told HuffPost that more than 1 billion animals are now feared dead in Australia&aposs bushfires.
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Curry said she knows a lot of people who live in Australia and she wanted to do something to help after the devastating bushfires there.
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The smoke from the raging bushfires has bathed many major cities in an eerie orange glow and created apocalyptic scenes of destruction across the continent.
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Since September, the bushfires have destroyed more than 900 homes, decimated small towns, and killed more than 480 million animals and at least 17 people.
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A firefighter who lost his home has refused to shake the Prime Minister's hand during a tour of communities in NSW destroyed by bushfires. pic.twitter.
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Using this simple formula, Dickman was able to calculate that approximately 480 million animals had been killed since the bushfires in NSW started in September.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Wollemi Pines survived the dinosaurs, and now firefighters have nursed them through the country's worst bushfires in generations to live another day.
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At the same time, rainfall deficiencies across large parts of eastern Australia have continued to increase, unfortunately exacerbating both drought conditions and the current bushfires.
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With bushfires ravaging vast stretches of Australia, including many areas near his home city of Canberra, he has been involved in raising funds and awareness.
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Bushfires, worsened by climate change, continued to rage across Australia, killing at least 28 people and an estimated 1 billion animals and destroying 2,000 homes.
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Owen Colley, a 6-year-old from Hingham, Massachusetts, was upset to learn about the Australian bushfires two weeks ago, his mom Caitlin Colley said.
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Australia's already dwindling koala population is being further threatened by devastating bushfires that have burned more than 2.5 million acres on the country's east coast.
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A new art installation in Sydney, Australia is showing support for those impacted by hundreds of bushfires that have struck the region in recent weeks.
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Dimaculangan and 19 other firefighters with Angeles National Forest returned to California on Wednesday after they volunteered to help contain the devastating bushfires in Australia.
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The bushfires that have torn through vast swathes of southeast Australia have left 26 people dead and killed or injured an estimated one billion animals.
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Property manager Ingenia Communities Group declined 3.8% after it flagged lower fiscal 2020 earnings growth due to the impact of the Australian bushfires on tourism.
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TOWAMBA, Australia (Reuters) - Fearing the worst from approaching bushfires, most of the roughly 230 people living in the village of Towamba in Australia's southeast left.
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One of the losers of the week not surprisingly is the Australian dollar, down more than 1% over the week as bushfires ravage its economy.
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Jeff Bezos wants Amazon to do its part in helping Australia recover from a series of bushfires that have ravaged the country in recent months.
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"Our hearts go out to all Australians, the country&aposs communities, bushland, and wildlife affected by the devastating bushfires," the company said on its website.
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"I have been deeply saddened to hear of the continued bushfires and their devastating impact across many parts of Australia," the United Kingdom monarch said.
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"On a dry continent prone to deadly bushfires for centuries, fuel reduction through controlled burning is vital," said an editorial published Thursday in The Australian.
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Bushfires have killed 163 people and about 1 billion animals since September, while 2,500 homes and an area the size of Greece have been destroyed.
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In particular, some of the research is making a staggering argument: This season's bushfires were so catastrophic, they caught modelers off guard—way off guard.
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WIRES volunteer and carer Tracy Dodd holds a kangaroo with burnt feet pads after being rescued from bushfires in the Blue Mountains on December 30.
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Australia called up 3,000 army reservists to help conduct evacuations and fight bushfires as a growing number of residents are endangered by the expanding blazes.
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Managing bushfires is the responsibility of state governments and fire services, but the unprecedented scale of the fire season demanded a national response, Morrison said.
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"Whilst bushfires continue to impact parts of Australia, many areas are unaffected and most tourism businesses are still open," Tourism Australia said in its statement.
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Huge bushfires in New South Wales and Victoria have burnt through more than 25.5 million acres of land, killed 25 people and left thousands homeless.
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Huge bushfires have been burning for weeks across Australia, with new blazes sparked into life in bushland left tinder dry after a three-year drought.
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"ANNIHILATED" The bushfires crisis deals a further blow to farmers already struggling following a three-year drought, which has been credited with fueling the fires.
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Australia's environment minister estimated on Friday up to 30% of koalas may have died from bushfires on the New South Wales state's mid-north coast.
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The former is already reeling from months of bushfires and depends on China for almost one quarter of imports and over one-third of exports.
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The city is more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from southeastern Australia, parts of which have been devastated by bushfires that have raged for months.
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Raging bushfires across Australia have shown no signs of slowing down, forcing the evacuation of entire towns and shutting down major highways along the way.
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A burnt Christmas decoration lies on the ground in front of a house recently destroyed by bushfires on the outskirts of Bargo on Dec. 21.
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Widodo also noted Australia's bushfires which had burned 11 hectares of forests and lands and are estimated to have killed up to 1 billion native animals.
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Experts estimate over one billion animals have been killed in Australia's unprecedented bushfires, with more injured and facing starvation due to the destruction of their habitat.
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More than 100,000 hectares of land had been burnt by bushfires across Victoria since the start of March, a spokeswoman for the Emergency Management Victoria said.
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About 303 koalas living on the reserve in the north coast town of Port Macquarie have died in the bushfires, the group Koala Conservation Australia estimates.
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The chemistry of smoke taint was kickstarted in 2008, after a series of near-annual Australian bushfires began proliferating, destroying vineyards, and causing smoke tainted grapes.
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Research has discovered that during bushfires, echidnas will go to sleep, burying themselves as deep as they can and waiting for the flames to blow over.
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In the southern state of Tasmania, dozens of bushfires broke out, destroying homes and wilderness as hundreds of firefighters sought to get the blazes under control.
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Dozens of bushfires broke out across the southern state of Tasmania, destroying homes and wilderness as hundreds of firefighters sought to get the blazes under control.
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Strong winds have fanned bushfires in the two Australian states since Monday, with flames out of control in some areas, ravaging thousands of hectares of land.
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In fact, this season obliterates the country's previous record for worst wildfire season; that was in 2009, when the Black Saturday bushfires razed 1.1 million acres.
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Kylie Jenner recently posted on Instagram urging her fans to donate to a wildlife rescue in Australia, where bushfires have killed an estimated 500 million animals.
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Story at a glance The three U.S. firefighters who died helping Australia battle its fierce bushfires have been identified as veterans, according to an NBC report.
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The most recent update from New South Wales Rural Fire Service shows there are 54 bushfires still burning and 20 that have yet to be contained.
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The massive bushfires in Australia are still spreading as heat, high winds, and dry weather push flames through much of the southeastern part of the country.
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He also said hiring in Asia Pacific continued to be impacted by trade uncertainty in Mainland China, Hong Kong protests, as well as bushfires in Australia.
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"Overall, we think that the bushfires increase the likelihood of a rate cut from the RBA in February," UBS analysts wrote in a note on Tuesday.
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In what nation (and continent) did residents of the town of Tathra have to flee to beaches or nearby towns during a sudden onslaught of bushfires?
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LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One, whose 2020 season starts in Melbourne on March 15, has announced an auction to help areas most affected by the Australian bushfires.
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The tree features scorched branches, burnt mechanical parts, and other objects gathered by Dive from areas in New South Wales that have been ravaged by bushfires.
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Dubbed a "black summer" by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the unusually prolonged and intense bushfires have increased pressure on the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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SYDNEY, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The dangerous bushfires raging across Australia pose no immediate risk to the country's pristine 'AAA' sovereign rating, S&P said on Monday.
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NASA predicts that the massive bushfires devastating Australia will produce enough smoke to make at least one full circuit around the planet and return to Australia.
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Six-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday he was donating $500,000 towards the rescue and care of wildlife caught in the bushfires.
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People enduring the bushfires in Australia, or who survived California's intense wildfire seasons have to contend with not only the flames, but dangerous smoke as well.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Swathes of southeast Australia were bracing on Thursday for a days-long heatwave that threatens to stoke bushfires that have been burning for months.
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All of that is adding up to another problem for scientists: Studying climate change in general, or its effect on bushfires specifically, is becoming increasingly difficult.
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While Kevin and I are talking in his studio's backyard, two years on from California's wildfires, Australia is being engulfed with devastating bushfires of its own.
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Australian authorities urged another mass evacuation across the heavily populated southeast today as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening several towns and communities.
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Bec Winter stands next to her son, Riley, while hugging her horse Charmer, who she rode to safety through bushfires on New Year's Eve in Moruya.
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WIRES volunteer and carer Tracy Dodd holds a kangaroo with burnt feet pads after it was rescued from bushfires in the Blue Mountains on December 30.
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Whereas most of the Amazon fires were deliberately set by ranchers and loggers looking to clear land, Australia&aposs bushfires mostly started due to natural causes.
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Crowe said they donated A$200,000 to regional RFS branches in November after bushfires threatened his property around Nana Glen, around 550 kilometres north of Sydney.
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While many of these ecosystems are fire-adapted, few are capable of handling bushfires at the scale and intensity that parts of Australia are now experiencing.
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According to recent reports, more than 8003 million hectares [2800 million acres] of land have been burned across Australia since the bushfires started in September 23.
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The Royal Australian Navy rescued about 33,000 people who were trapped in the town of Mallacoota, Victoria which has been hit especially hard by the bushfires.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The bushfires ravaging Australia are generating so much heat that they are creating their own weather systems including dry lighting storms and fire tornadoes.
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Authorities issued new warnings and evacuation notices across southeast Australia on Thursday, as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening several towns and communities.
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The ongoing bushfires that have devastated Australia closed in on the country's capital, Canberra, on Friday as it declared its first state of emergency since 2003.
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The species is endemic to the eastern Australian region, much of which is tinder-dry after years of drought and has faced months of intense bushfires.
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The town was badly hit by bushfires that have swept across the country's southeast in recent months, killing 29 people, razing farmland and leaving thousands homeless.
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This morning, the smoke from the bushfires in East Gippsland drifted over Melbourne's suburbs, resulting in an instant drop in air quality to the "hazardous" level.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Firefighters in eastern Australia used easing weather conditions on Sunday to bring bushfires under control ahead of forecast of soaring temperatures for next week.
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We're updating you on the ongoing fight against bushfires in parts of Australia, and we're taking you on a tour of a famous glacier in Alaska.
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"In what is a national tragedy, the bushfires in and around Port Macquarie in November devastated a genetically diverse koala population," Port Macquarie Koala Hospital said.
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An estimated 1 million hectares of land have been burned by bushfires across the country in recent weeks, killing an estimated 1,000 koalas and other wildlife.
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For more than two months, deadly bushfires have been burning out of control across Australia and engulfing whole towns, exacerbated by strong winds and rising temperatures.
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New South Wales Rugby League called off four junior representative trial matches scheduled over the weekend due to concerns over air quality resulting from the bushfires.
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Morrison addressed his conservative Liberal-National coalition's climate policies on Sunday, which his government has been forced to defend following the severity of this year's bushfires.
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But some analysts say it is too early to write Morrison's political epitaph, but concede Australia's summer bushfires may eventually see a change in climate policy.
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"Anecdotally I think we have never seen it as bad as this, which is the drought, and then the bushfires on top of that," he said.
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The Australia bushfires study, for instance, did not find a clear climate-change driver for the record low rainfall that also contributed to the recent fires.
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Story at a glance The bushfires in Australia have killed at least nine people and scorched more than 20203 million acres since they ignited in September.
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Margot Robbie made an emotional plea on the morning of the Golden Globes on Sunday urging people to donate to the causes around the Australian bushfires.
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The government&aposs announcement comes amid analysis suggesting the bushfires are causing significant damage to the Australian economy — and, therefore, the government&aposs long-promised surplus.
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Terrifying video captured the moment a fire and rescue crew in Australia were overrun by bushfires spreading rapidly through the South Coast of New South Wales.
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AX) expects to incur losses of between A$286 million ($1153 million) and A$2115 million in fiscal 2500, due to the bushfires ravaging the east coast.
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In 2009, the worst bushfires on record destroyed thousands of homes in Victoria, killing 173 people and injuring 414 on a day the media dubbed "Black Saturday".
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Scorching weather last month triggered power outages in some areas and sent electricity prices soaring, while bushfires have destroyed homes in the southern island state of Tasmania.
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Take Australia's oldest man, who knits sweaters for oil-stricken penguins in his spare time, and the locals who often sew mittens for koalas singed by bushfires.
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A Boeing 737 modified for use as a waterbomber was used to fight bushfires around the city of Newcastle, north of Sydney, said the Rural Fire Service.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Three people have died, four are missing and at least 150 homes have been destroyed as bushfires rage across eastern Australia, authorities said on Saturday.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Three people have died, four are missing and at least 150 homes have been destroyed as bushfires rage across eastern Australia, authorities said on Saturday.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Towns were evacuated and hundreds of residents told to flee on Friday as a record number of emergency-level bushfires raged across two Australian states.
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Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers but the current severe outbreak, well before the summer peak, has caught many by surprise.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian firefighters will spend Sunday trying to contain bushfires as authorities warn that widespread fire danger on Tuesday will stretch their ability to protect people.
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GrainCorp's warning, echoing those of firms like pesticides and crop seeds maker Nufarm Ltd and dairy produce supplier Bega Cheese, comes as wild bushfires plague the region.
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Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers but the current severe outbreak, well before the summer peak, has caught many by surprise.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An obsessive compulsive dog who was abandoned as a puppy has a new mission: helping find and save koalas injured in Australia's recent devastating bushfires.
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Bushfires have also now become so big that they are generating their own weather through pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which create their own thunderstorms that can start more fires.
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The bushfires are a stark case in point of how the government was caught off guard and could end up in the same position in the future.
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The Australian government has called the bushfires crisis engulfing the country "an ecological disaster", with up to a billion animals killed or at risk in the aftermath.
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Since October, the bushfires have claimed at least 28 lives, destroyed more than 2,000 homes, and razed an area of land nearly the size of South Korea.
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Over the past few months the bushfires have razed an area roughly a third the size of Germany, killed 29 people, and destroyed more than 2,000 homes.
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WANDELLA, Australia (Reuters) - (Note strong language in paragraph 3.) There is little that Australia's deadly bushfires didn't take from dairy and cattle farmers Tim and Warren Stalway.
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The Aussie, which has been hurt by worries about the economic damage of the country's ongoing bushfires, rose 0.3% to hit a one-week high of $0.6919.
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On Monday, Australia's environment and energy department released an initial list of threatened plants and animals across the country whose habitat has been affected by the bushfires.
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Fitzsimmons said the plane had been leased by Canadian aerial firefighting company Coulson Aviation, which had a second C-130 Hercules working in the Australian bushfires operation.
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Fitzsimmons said the plane had been leased by Canadian aerial firefighting company Coulson Aviation, which had a second C-130 Hercules working in the Australian bushfires operation.
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It used to be that corporate donations were an easy source of good PR. As the backlash against Amazon's bushfires donation shows, that's not as true anymore.
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These gusts are also pushing bushfires forward with unreal speed, blowing embers perhaps miles ahead of the fire front, setting new fires, a phenomenon known as spotting.
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A second group of American firefighters arrived in Australia on Thursday to fight the country&aposs bushfires, and locals wasted no time in thanking them for volunteering.
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New Zealanders became more aware of climate change as bushfires in neighboring Australia turned its skies red and glaciers brown, making each party's position a key issue.
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Morrison has stoked widespread public anger by refusing to directly link the bushfires to climate change, insisting removing flammable vegetation is "just as important, if not more".
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"Reverberations of these epic bushfires will be felt for generations," Joe Fontaine, a lecturer in environmental and conservation sciences at Australia's Murdoch University, said in a statement.
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Bushfires have now also become so big that they are generating their own weather through pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which create their own thunderstorms that can start more fires.
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"Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as national arson arrest toll hits 183," the headline read, as if nearly 200 people had been caught contributing to the current crisis.
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The bushfires in Australia are creating violent weather systems that can spark new fires, conjure fire tornadoes and make fighting existing fires much more challenging, experts say.
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Australia fires Support poured in from around the world as Australia faced one of its worst weekends ever in the fight against deadly bushfires ravaging the country.
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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) Australia is looking for volunteers to feed local wildlife injured by the bushfires on Kangaroo Island.
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Below is our conversation, edited and condensed for clarity: VICE: Is it fair to say that the carbon majors bear some responsibility for the bushfires in Australia?
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An obsessive compulsive dog who was abandoned as a puppy has a new mission: helping find and save koalas injured in Australia's recent devastating bushfires.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Bushfires and a historic drought have put climate change front and centre for Australia, increasing pressure on a pro-coal government to act.
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While the land is devastated by uncontrollable bushfires, the ocean is similarly ravaged by heat, killing marine life and releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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PICTON, Australia (Reuters) - When Australian volunteer firefighter Andrew Hain is out battling bushfires, he sends emojis to his wife Kate to let her know he is safe.
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An Australian hospital has been touched by all the generous support they've received to help koalas that have been affected by the bushfires in South Wales, Australia.
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Irwin added that while the hospital is safe from the bushfires, which are concentrated in southeastern Australia, the number of patients are rising due to the flames.
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As of Thursday evening local time, the NSW Rural Fire Service has reported 146 bushfires in the state, three of which were categorized as "out of control."
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"[There's a direct link] because what climate change does is exacerbate the conditions in which the bushfires happen," Australian National University's Dr. Imran Ahmed told the BBC.
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While the fires posed no immediate threat to any major population centres, bushfires are rare during the Australian winter and have been fanned by above-average dry conditions.
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Thanks to the rain, the NSW Rural Fire Service on Sunday night declared that one of the state's worst bushfires, Currawon on the south coast, was finally out.
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Australia's central bank held its cash rate this week and sounded doggedly optimistic even as markets bet devastating bushfires at home and China's virus would force aggressive easing.
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Since September, bushfires of unprecedented scale and duration have scorched more than 27 million acres of land across eastern Australia and destroyed habitats of more than 1,400 species.
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To me, the question became important in February 218, after the Victoria Black Saturday bushfires in Australia destroyed large swathes of my home state and killed 2503 people.
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MELBOURNE, Nov 9 (Reuters) - One person has been found dead and at least 100 homes have been destroyed as bushfires rage across eastern Australia, authorities said on Saturday.
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For an interactive graphic on Australia bushfires: State of emergency, click here While politicians argue, concern is growing about the impact on the health of a warmer world.
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Australia's worst bushfires on record destroyed thousands of homes in Victoria in February 2009, killing 173 people and injuring 414 on a day the media dubbed "Black Saturday".
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Recent bushfires have tragically claimed the lives of more 350 koalas, according to animal experts, and have raised concerns about Australia's koala population ... which is already considered endangered.
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A shocking 10,000 koalas (a third of the total koala population of NSW) are estimated to have died from the bushfires, as well as drought over the summer.
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Bushfires are tearing through parts of eastern Australia, and experts say that climate change is to blame for an especially intense and destructive start to the fire season.
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Raging bushfires across Australia are threatening to drag down the economy as the country's tourism and consumer sectors take a hit, said the chief economist of BetaShares Capital.
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On Saturday, Jenner posted multiple Instagram stories urging her fans to donate to a wildlife rescue in Australia, where widespread bushfires have killed an estimated 500 million animals.
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Bushfires in Australia have killed 33 people and about 1 billion animals since September, while some 2,500 homes and an area the size of Greece have been destroyed.
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Analysts expect small downgrades for near-term growth due to the impact from bushfires and a rapidly spreading coronavirus that has left parts of China in a lockdown.
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He also drew attention to the Australian bushfires and urged viewers to "make changes and sacrifices in our own lives" to help the overall problem of climate change.
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Smoke from bushfires blanketed Melbourne in a thick, gray haze on Wednesday before a clearing rain-storm, disrupting the Australian Open's qualifying matches for a second successive day.
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Given the bushfires have consumed an area 20 times greater than a similar conflagration in 20083, the cost will dwarf the $3 billion price attached to that disaster.
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"A lot of tourists were told not to come because of the bushfires risk," says Andi Csantos, a resident who is organizing a fundraising dinner for the town.
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Economists generally expect the bushfires to drag on gross domestic product by 0.25%-0.4% per quarter through March 2020, with agriculture, retail, tourism and construction the hardest hit.
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In January, hundreds of holidaymakers had to be evacuated by boat from the beaches of the Royal National Park south of Sydney when they became trapped by bushfires.
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Severe drought, soaring temperatures, and the growing threat of bushfires on the world's driest continent may ultimately destroy the quality of life enjoyed by its 25 million residents.
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Numerous players have had problems during qualifying matches at the tournament blamed on the air quality in Melbourne, which has been affected by the bushfires near the city.
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Bushfires in Australia have killed 33 people and about 2.383 billion animals since September, while some 2,500 homes and an area the size of Greece have been destroyed.
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Australia Bushfires Arrive Early, Destroying Historic Lodge in 'Omen' of Future: Officials warned that climate change and drought threatened to bring Australia its worst fire season on record.
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Given the bushfires have consumed an area 20 times greater than a similar conflagration in 83, the cost will dwarf the $3 billion price attached to that disaster.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is urging foreign tourists to avoid canceling planned trips to the country because of the deadly bushfires ravaging southeastern parts of the continent.
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Ecologists from the University of Sydney have estimated that nearly 500 million mammals, birds, and reptiles have been killed in the bushfires since the season started in September.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said he had spoken to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday to offer French aid in dealing with Australia's devastating bushfires.
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Rain in Australia's fire-ravaged states on Monday might've felt like a reprieve, but officials have warned it didn't actually do much to stop the rampant, deadly bushfires.
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That means some 600 square miles of the western side of the island — which teems (or once did) with forests, woodlands, and koalas — have been consumed by bushfires.
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Actress Nicole Kidman and her husband, singer-songwriter Keith Urban, have donated $500,000 to the Australian fire service in an effort to help with out-of-control bushfires.
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Meanwhile, bushfires are set to affect the country's major dairy industry, with fire-affected regions accounting for around a third of Australia's output, according to a Reuters report.
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The huge bushfires have cut through the country's east coast during the peak summer months when many businesses usually rake in earnings from both domestic and foreign tourists.
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Parts of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria — the two states that have seen the worst of the bushfires — have already gotten up to two inches of rain.
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While common in Australia during the hot summer, which begins in December, bushfires have begun much earlier this season, blamed on soaring temperatures, dry winds and suspected arson.
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Australia is prone to bushfires in its dry, hot summers, but fierce blazes have been sparked early, in the southern spring, by a long drought and soaring temperatures.
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He apologized on Friday for "any offence caused to any of the many Australians affected by the terrible bushfires by my taking leave with family at this time".
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Seasonal bushfires have struck Australia in a way like never before, making for months of monster blazes and toxic haze, and fuelling a polarizing debate over climate change.
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New South Wales, the state where Sydney is located, has been particularly impacted by a series of severe bushfires raging across the country amid drought and extreme temperatures.
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The family of late Australian wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin announced that they treated their 90,000th patient at their wildlife hospital in Queensland, as bushfires continue to ravage Australia.
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Ecologists from the University of Sydney have estimated that nearly 500 million mammals, birds, and reptiles have been killed in the bushfires since the season started in September.
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Farmers across Australia's east coast have been battling drought conditions for more than three years, while bushfires wreaked havoc for over four months, putting the country's economy at peril.
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Since they started in August, the bushfires have destroyed more than 40,000 square miles, an area the size of Ohio, and decimated fragile ecosystems that have survived for millenia.
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A lake in the Central Plateau Conservation area, Via Dan BrounSince mid January, out-of-control bushfires sparked by lightning storms have raged across Tasmania's World Heritage Wilderness Area.
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Australia's extreme weather means farmers rely heavily on climate change forecasts from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to mitigate the impact of bushfires, cyclones and droughts.
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In October 2015, the Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority warned drone users they could face steep fines for flying near bushfires and putting firefighting aircraft and firefighters at risk.
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Here are a collection of photos that illustrate a small portion of the impact of these catastrophic bushfires, although the lasting effects can't really be captured in one frame.
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CLIMATE CHANGE New Zealanders became more aware of climate change as bushfires in neighbouring Australia turned its skies red and glaciers brown, making each party's position a key issue.
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Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday described the bushfires, which have raged since September, killing 29 people and millions of animals, as "an unprecedented series of natural disasters".
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The Australian Open, the season's first Grand Slam, starts later on Monday but the lead-up was blighted by smoke from bushfires that have raged across Australia for months.
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More than 80 percent of the Gondwana Rainforest World Heritage Area lies within New South Wales, the eastern Australian state that's been hardest hit by this year's devastating bushfires.
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These conditions are a stark contrast to the bushfires and dry dust storms blowing across these same states, leaving many Australians to wonder what on earth is going on.
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On top of worries about the damage from coronavirus, the currency has been dogged by concerns over the fallout from bushfires that have been ravaging the country for weeks.
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Both took part last week in the Rally for Relief there, a benefit event to raise money for victims of the bushfires that have ravaged Australia in recent weeks.
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Kidman and Urban donated to the NSW Rural Fire Service, a government agency that tracks bushfires throughout the state and is the largest volunteer fire service in the world.
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The dry weather extends a drought that has gripped Australia's east coast for three years and left bushland tinder-box dry as bushfires rage across the most populous states.
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Tourism is another major source of income, but if summer bushfires continue to threaten air quality and dump ashes on popular beaches, foreign visitors may look elsewhere for vacations.
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In a country known for harsh weather, towering bushfires then razed vast areas, killing 33 people, followed by drenching rains that brought floods to some and relief to others.
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Bushfires started earlier than usual in September in Australia, destroying more than 11.7 million hectares (117,000 sq km) and killing at least 33 people and about 1 billion animals.
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A cat sits in a makeshift joey pouch crafted for animals affected by Australia's bushfires, seen in this January 6 image obtained via social media, in Tauranga, New Zealand.
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Surreal photos show smoke from Australia's bushfires turning the sky in New Zealand orange — 1,200 miles awayHere are 8 ways you can donate money to Australia's bushfire relief effort
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian volunteer firefighter died on Monday and two others suffered burns after their truck rolled over when it was hit by extreme winds amid raging bushfires.
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The incident took the death toll from the country's raging bushfires to nine and added pressure on authorities to reconsider New Year celebration plans for the city of Sydney.
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Out-of-control bushfires in Australia have ravaged millions of acres of land, killing an estimated 480 million animals in New South Wales, and 20 people, including three firefighters.
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"Bushfires are normal in Australia as part of the natural cycle, but by some estimates the scale of the current infernos may be the worst on record," he said.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian job advertisements suffered their largest monthly drop in seven months in December as bushfires across the country's two most populous states took a toll on activity.
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These bushfires have been amplified by profoundly parched forests, brush, and grasslands — dried-out by a triple-whammy of record-breaking heat waves combined with drought and unrelenting winds.
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The combination of sustainable building and a collection of homes created for disaster response are extra-timely as 14.6 million acres of Australia has burned in the ongoing bushfires.
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So far, the bushfires have killed at least 219 people and an approximated 113 million animals, from koalas to insects, according to one analysis from The University of Sydney.
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But they've also brought something positive to light in Gunditjmara territory Story at a glance The Australian bushfires have decimated millions of acres of land and billions of species.
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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) Australia is looking for volunteers who want a more hands-on approach to helping animals impacted by bushfires.
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"The worldwide tennis community has come together in support of all those affected by the bushfires across many parts of Australia," ITF president David Haggerty said in a statement.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia said on Sunday that he would call for a high-level government inquiry into the response to the country's devastating bushfires.
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The dry weather extends a drought that has gripped Australia's east coast for three years and left bushland tinder-box dry as bushfires rage across the most populous states.
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SYDNEY, Nov 19 (Reuters) - An obsessive compulsive dog who was abandoned as a puppy has a new mission: helping find and save koalas injured in Australia's recent devastating bushfires.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bushfires in Australia destroyed buildings and threatened lives on Saturday as a heatwave in three states brought temperatures strong enough to melt the bitumen on a highway.
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"The reality of climate change really impacted my community this year, when bushfires ravaged the Huon Valley, and burned over 22013,503 hectares of wilderness across the state" he says.
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BLUE MOUNTAINS, Australia (Reuters) - The dirty, hot and dangerous work of battling bushfires might be physically exhausting for Raymond Lowe, but he is not stepping aside any time soon.
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Conditions have cooled over the past few days, after devastating bushfires that have burnt more than 4 million hectares (9.88 million acres) of land across five states since September.
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Australia&aposs Department of Defense has provided additional support in helping remove people from their homes in areas at risk of bushfires, as well as transporting firefighters by air.
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Read more:Kim and Khloe Kardashian responded to a Twitter user who criticized them for not donating to Australian relief servicesSteve Irwin&aposs family announces it has saved 90,000 animals in Australia, and says admissions are surging as bushfires rage onHere are 8 ways you can donate money to Australia&aposs bushfire relief effortCelebrities used the Golden Globe Awards as a platform to push for climate change reform and bring attention to Australian bushfires
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We're already facing monumental disasters like the Australian bushfires, and the impacts of climate change will get exponentially more destructive and harder to survive with each increase in global temperature.
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Economists and analysts said the economic impact of the epidemic coupled with the bushfires in Australia are likely to lead to an interest rate cut by the RBA in April.
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Australasian insurer IAG announced Friday it had used drones — in what it said was an Australian first — to inspect the catastrophic damage caused by bushfires along Victoria's Great Ocean Road.
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In January, hundreds of holidaymakers had to be rescued in a boat evacuation from the beaches of the Royal National Park south of Sydney, when they became trapped by bushfires.
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Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's dry summers but the ferocity and early arrival of this outbreak in the southern hemisphere spring has caught many by surprise.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Hyundai were confirmed winners of the World Rally Championship's manufacturers' title after the season-ending Rally of Australia was canceled on Tuesday due to the threat of bushfires.
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An Australian koala hospital on Friday raised over $1 million in order to save and rehabilitate animals injured in Australia&aposs devastating bushfires that continue to rage across the country.
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Kim Kardashian West and Khloé Kardashian slammed a Twitter user who accused them of talking about climate change and the Australian bushfires without donating "even a penny" to relief efforts.
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The currency has been dogged by concerns over fallout from widespread bushfires that have increased expectations of a rate cut by the country's central bank as soon as next month.
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In November, Barnaby Joyce, a prominent member of the National Party, said the Green Party had contributed to worse-than-usual bushfires by blocking fire reduction methods like land clearing.
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In late December, Nogrady and her family had to flee their home in Blackheath, New South Wales, as two bushfires bore down on the Blue Mountain town from either side.
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Meanwhile, top miner BHP Group reported an 11% drop in New South Wales thermal coal output in the first half due to Australian bushfires, but maintained its full-year forecast.
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As smoke from Australia's bushfires reaches communities half a world away in South America, it should surely surprise very few that environmental threats now monopolize the risks facing our world.
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Bear has been putting these skills to work across the areas affected by the recent bushfires, and is ready to keep working for as long as the koalas need him.
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COBARGO, Australia (Reuters) - After observing a kangaroo limping in a creek bed with paws burnt by bushfires, wildlife volunteer Janine Green takes the decision that she never wants to make.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's alpine resorts have dusted off winter snowmaking machines to blast ice-cold water onto dry ski slopes as huge bushfires threaten to engulf the Snowy Mountains region.
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Fontaine, who researches bushfires and fire management, said Australia needed to invest more in research to strengthen its understanding of fires and what it faces now and in the future.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Six-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday he was donating $500,000 towards the rescue and care of wildlife caught in bushfires ravaging southeast Australia.
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About 10,000 dehydrated wild camels are at risk of being shot and killed in Australia, as their home region faces a long drought and the country faces hundreds of bushfires.
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In recent years, there has been intense opposition in Australia to prescribed burning by critics who fear it does little to prevent bushfires and has a negative impact on biodiversity.
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A Slovenian tennis star who was forced to retire from the Australian Open after collapsing because of smoke from the nearby bushfires has hit out at the tournament&aposs organizers.
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At least 28 people and half a billion animals have died in the bushfires across Australia since July 1, while an estimated 14 million acres of land has been scorched.
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The results come at a time when damages from months-long bushfires are certain to hit Australian corporate earnings amid worries over the impact of the coronavirus epidemic in China.
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"Climate change is exacerbating every risk factor for more frequent and intense bushfires," Dale Dominey-Howes, an expert on disaster risk at the University of Sydney, told Business Insider Australia.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Actors, popstars and Britain's royal family have stepped in to offer support for victims of Australia's unprecedented bushfires, helping to raise millions for firefighting services and wildlife shelters.
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On Saturday, Britain's Queen Elizabeth joined grandsons William and Harry in expressing shock at the bushfires, and sent their thanks to the firefighters who risked their lives to save others.
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"Climate change is exacerbating every risk factor for more frequent and intense bushfires," Dale Dominey-Howes, an expert on disaster risk at the University of Sydney, told Business Insider Australia.
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At least 24 people have died, seven within the past week, while an estimated 480 million animals are believed to have been killed in the New South Wales bushfires alone.
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Toxic smog shrouded Asian megacities, hundreds died in flooding and landslides, cyclones battered coastlines and bushfires, droughts and deadly heatwaves led to towns and cities almost running out of water.
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The devastating bushfires in Australia that have drawn military deployments and millions of dollars of aid meant to address "unprecedented" amounts of damage, authorities said in a Saturday press conference.
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WIRESNSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) rescues and cares for animals and is seeking donations for volunteer carers and rescuers that are "inundated" with them amid the bushfires.
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Sydney, which will host both the knockout stage of the ATP Cup and the group stage, also has to deal with apprehensions about smoke from the devastating bushfires impacting play.
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One estimate puts the bushfires' total tally at over a billion mammals, birds, and reptiles, but that doesn't include other animals like insects, whose toll could be much, much higher.
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We won't know the real toll for some time, but this much is clear: The bushfires burning in Australia have crippled iconic habitats that make the continent an ecological wonder.
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It's too early in the fire season to say how well the strategy has worked, but they've had a number of lightning strikes on their lands, and no rampant bushfires.
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Bushfires are common during Australia's summer months, but this fire season started unusually early, often moving quickly and unpredictably, and leaving swathes of the drought-stricken land a scorched earth.
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GRAPHIC: Forests in flames - Images from space show Australia's bushfires: here Reporting by John Mair in Sydney and Will Ziebell in Melbourne; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Stephen Coates
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Wildlife carers in Australia are ready to work around the clock over Christmas, preparing for more admissions particularly for baby animals stressed by hot weather, bushfires and drought.
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The Australian government announced a $2 billion recovery fund on Monday that will help rebuild areas damaged by bushfires, which have razed more than 9.9 million acres across five states.
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Weighing on the sentiment further, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) slashed forecasts for economic growth in the near term to reflect the drag from bushfires and drought, and the coronavirus.
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Yet it expected rebuilding from the bushfires to boost growth in the second half of the year, along with a pick up in consumption as rising home prices lifted household wealth.
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The near-term downgrade reflects a tough few weeks for the currency as raging bushfires in Australia and the epidemic in China took a heavy toll on tourism and commodity prices.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Bushfires eased near Australia's capital, Canberra, on Monday, as temperatures dipped, but officials warned heavy smoke was set to blow into the city with a shift in the wind.
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Since mid-January, bushfires sparked by lightning storms have raged across northwest Tasmania, home to relic forests representing a time when the island was part of Gondwana 180 million years ago.
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He told me he'd been arrested for lighting bushfires as a teen, back in the late 80s, and if I wanted to know more I could come visit him at home.
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The dry spell has helped fan rare winter bushfires in parts of the country and the Bureau of Meteorology has forecast an unusually dry and warm spring for Australia's east coast.
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"First of all our thoughts are with all those affected by the devastating bushfires in the New South Wales region of Australia and elsewhere," Scott Noh, President of Hyundai Motorsport, said.
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It's just one of the many ways people are using humor to cope with the crisis, like many TikTok users did with memes about World War 218 and the Australian bushfires.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian firefighters battled more than 100 bushfires across two eastern states on Sunday as authorities warned that parts of the country could expected a severe bushfire season this summer.
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Bushfires raged out of control near Melbourne, and on the Hume Highway, which links Sydney and Melbourne, a stretch of asphalt oozed apart in the heat, causing a major traffic jam.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that members of the New Zealand military were also deploying to Australia to help fight the bushfires and aid in recovery, as reported by The Guardian.
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Soaring temperatures and strong winds stoked unpredictable bushfires near Australia's capital city on Saturday, closing a major highway and prompting warnings for some residents that it was too late to evacuate.
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The tennis player who collapsed at the Australian Open because of smoke from nearby bushfires says players are &apospissed&apos at the organizers for not taking &aposbetter care&apos of them
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New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, who has played a very public role in this season's bushfires, said his family and children were huge fans of the band.
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The report fuels pressure on Morrison, who is already struggling under a barrage of criticism over his government's handing of ragging bushfires that have destroyed an area the size of Bulgaria.
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The rainfall that came as part of the severe weather conditions helped relieve some parts of the country affected by the bushfires, but caused damage in other ways, the BBC reported.
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TL;DR: This Humble Bundle deal gets you $424 worth of games for just $25 — better yet, all proceeds will be donated to aid Australian wildlife affected by the ongoing bushfires.
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The air quality was officially rated good on Monday but Williams had not forgotten the choking smoke from Australia's bushfires that greeted her when she arrived in Melbourne earlier this week.
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I shudder to think about the impacts bushfires under 2°C or even 3°C of warming, which is expected by the end of this century, will have on their lives.
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No deaths or serious injuries were reported on Monday but the bushfires have caused extensive damage in rural areas of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW), Australia's two most populous states.
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The ferocity of the recent bushfires has heightened concerns that a warmer climate is changing the nature of Australia's weather, and there is only modest rainfall forecast for the months ahead.
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For a graphic version of bushfires, click here The organic carbon contains a substantial portion of fine particles known as PM2.5, which can have a major impact on health and climate.
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MERIMBULA, Australia/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities urged another mass evacuation across the heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening several towns and communities.
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The bushfires devastating Australia are burning amid waves of disinformation spread over social media and criticism for some of the country&aposs top news outlets over their coverage of the crisis.
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Global warming is making extreme events like droughts, heatwaves and bushfires more intense and more likely, said Adam Hodge, a regional information officer with the United Nations Environment Program in Bangkok.
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The bushfires in Victoria and New South Wales blanketed parts of the state with a smoky haze, which has been affecting tennis players in the lead up to the Australian Open.
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Bushfires that have scorched Australia over the southern hemisphere summer have damaged train lines and associated infrastructure, delaying shipments, but have had no direct impact on the Cadia mine, it said.
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Bushfires are a perfectly natural component of the Australian landscape—every so often a mild fire sweeps through an area, and these animals can take refuge underground or in fallen logs.
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Now, pop monarch Lizzo, who is currently on tour in Australia, has personally volunteered at Foodbank in Melbourne, Victoria, packing food hampers in the warehouse for people displaced by the bushfires.
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Climate change has made the bushfires longer and more intense, by changing factors such as temperature, weather patterns, fuel condition and environmental moisture, according to the Australian government's Bureau of Meteorology.
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This year begins with the air-strike killing of Iran's military leader, devastating bushfires, and impeachment, and one of the most contentious elections of our times looms in the near future.
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The Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust CFA, an all-woman Indigenous fire crew made up of mothers and grandmothers, have volunteered to serve as first responders to surrounding bushfires in the area.
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The problem is these climate-change-driven bushfires are obliterating whole plant communities, whereas before they would burn mildly enough to leave some species standing, putting a check on the invasives.
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Drivers in Australian can now face fines of up to $28503,22020 for throwing lit cigarettes out of their vehicles, a penalty that comes as officials respond to bushfires devastating the region.
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The penalty for tossing lit cigarettes out of automobiles took effect on Friday in New South Wales, a southeastern Australian state that has been severely impacted by the uptick in bushfires.
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Earlier this month it battled two major bushfires, over the course of a week, that razed hectares of land previously described by academics as potentially vital for "the future" of koalas.
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The Australian bushfires that have so far killed at least 28 people and potentially more than a billion animals are due to the actions of a relatively small number of people.
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Australia is experiencing one of most severe fire seasons on record, with bushfires that have been burning since September claiming the lives of 28 people and destroying more than 2,500 homes.
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Parts of Australia's east coast were hit by severe storms on Saturday, dousing some of the bushfires that have devastated the region for months but causing road closures and flash flooding.
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In mid-November, 14 mayors of fire-stricken areas signed a letter urging the government to acknowledge a correlation between climate change and the devastating bushfires, asking also for more funds.
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In addition to bushfires, habitat clearing, dog attacks and road accidents, more than 2.5 million koalas have been killed to supply the fur trade in America and Europe, the zoo said.
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"I deeply regret any offence caused to any of the many Australians affected by the terrible bushfires by my taking leave with family at this time," Morrison said in the statement.
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Hain, a father-of-two, is one of several thousand volunteer firefighters that Australian communities rely on to combat bushfires, an ever pervasive threat in the continent's hot and dry climate.
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SYDNEY, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Australian authorities said on Friday they are focused on protecting water plants, pumping stations, pipes and other infrastructure from intense bushfires surrounding Sydney, the country's largest city.
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Australia needs to understand what forces are in and out of its controlPart of the fear generated by the bushfires was the uncertainty of how far the fires themselves could spread.
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"The lift in sentiment this month likely reflects easing concerns around bushfires and comes despite some significant negative developments, most notably the coronavirus outbreak abroad," said Westpac senior economist, Matthew Hassan.
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One cluster of bushfires reached a troubling crescendo on Saturday, as three separate blazes combined to cover an area larger than the New York City borough of Manhattan, as CNN reported.
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Children wear masks as they play in the southern New South Wales town of Bega, where people are camping after being evacuated from nearby sites affected by bushfires on Dec. 22.
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Meteorologists have said that the bushfires have gotten so big that they are generating their own weather in the form of "pyrocumulonimbus" clouds, which are giant thunderstorms that start more fires.
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SYDNEY, Dec 30 (Reuters) - An Australian volunteer firefighter died on Monday and two others suffered burns after their truck rolled over when it was hit by extreme winds amid raging bushfires.
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Read more:A social-media influencer giving out nudes in exchange for donations to fight the Australian bushfires says she has raised $700,000Red skies are blanketing southeast Australia as hundreds of fires ravage the countryNicole Kidman and Keith Urban donated $500,000 to Australia&aposs fire services amid devastating bushfiresI spent New Year&aposs trapped by Australian bushfires that looked like a scene from a war zoneHere are eight ways you can donate to help fight the fires
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The conditions may spark fears of a repeat of "Black Saturday" in 2009, when soaring temperatures and high winds fanned the flames of a series of bushfires across the state of Victoria.
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The duo were the singles champions in 2009, when the heatwave that hit the tournament resulted in the Black Saturday bushfires that blazed across Victoria a few weeks later, claiming 173 lives.
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Nearer to the state capital of Sydney, bushfires have reached 2350 kilometres of the city centre, with streets, homes, and cars in suburbs like South Turramurra covered in bright pink flame retardant.
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Art Murphy (R) and his wife Shirley look at a burnt-out section of their property which was caught in bushfires in Old Bar, 350 kilometres north of Sydney on Nov. 11.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian firefighters raced on Sunday to contain widespread bushfires that have left three people dead, and warned of "catastrophic" fire conditions ahead, including around the country's biggest city of Sydney.
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Bushfires raged through the east coast last weekend, setting the tone for the week as schools closed and those living in danger zones prepared to evacuate on an especially hot, windy Tuesday.
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"We used to see hundreds of thousands of hectares burned in bushfires, but now we are seeing millions on fire," Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project, told the Herald.
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She said she would donate 100% of the profits from her clothing line to emergency relief for the Australian bushfires underneath a photo of her wearing a see-through wet T-shirt.
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While the wet weather brings relief to fire fighters and drought-hit farmers, it also comes with dangers, such as flash flooding and falling trees, many structurally destroyed by the intense bushfires.
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And while yes, $25 will get you $424 worth of new PC games to play, 100% of those profits will be donated to help the wildlife affected by the dangerous Australian bushfires.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will have to wait until March for rains heavy enough to bring sustained relief from dry weather that has fueled deadly bushfires, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday.
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The economy was already running at a pedestrian 1.7% pace in the year to September, and that was before massive bushfires began ravaging much of the east and south of the country.
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Coco Gauff joined some of tennis&apos brightest stars at the "Rally For Relief" to help raise money for the victims of the Australian bushfires ahead of this year&aposs Australian Open.
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Reducing Fire, and Cutting Carbon Emissions, the Aboriginal Way: As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention.
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"And as we have seen with the recent Australian bushfires, the ongoing drought and the fact that some Australian cities and towns face severe water shortages, the outlook is worsening," he said.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate-heating emissions from Australia's devastating bushfires are now nearly on a par with those caused by fires in the Amazon rainforest last year, scientists have calculated.
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A spokesperson from the South Australia Department for Environment and Water told Insider that the cull is a result of the droughts hitting APY communities, and is not connected to the bushfires.
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The wild bushfires have been ongoing in Australia for several months at this point, and with the southern hemisphere just getting into summer there doesn't seem to be an end in sight.
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Rain and hail is falling in parts of Australia, but forecasters fear it won&apost stop the country&aposs devastating bushfires, and could create new dangerous weather conditions like flooding and landslides.
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Melbourne's Herald Sun, for example, pushed news of the bushfires to Page 4 on New Year's Eve, even as they threatened to devastate towns nearby and push thick smoke into the city.
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Insurers in the country have been inundated with claims after soaring temperatures and dry winds fanned bushfires across the country, killing 13 people and an estimated one billion native animals since September.
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Meanwhile, building materials maker Boral Ltd warned of a larger hit from bushfires in the second-half and revealed an investigation had found employees inflated earnings at its North American Windows business.
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"We used to see hundreds of thousands of hectares burned in bushfires, but now we are seeing millions on fire," Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project, told the Herald.
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Chad Staples, director of the zoo, told the Australian Broadcasting Company that zookeepers were well-prepared to protect the animals as bushfires broke out in the region over New Year&aposs Eve.
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So, yes, while I may have been trapped by the bushfires, I have entered into the new decade healthy and safe and alive, and for that, I could not be more grateful.
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His home town of Canberra has been severely affected by the bushfires and a number of Australian sports stars have rallied behind Kyrgios, who has received lot of praise on social media.
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Footage of an Australian bird mimicking the sound of emergency sirens has gone viral in the midst of the raging Australian bushfires, which have now burned millions of acres of Australian land.
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Raging bushfires across southwestern Australia are taking a big toll on tourism, reducing some resorts to ghost towns in New South Wales in peak season as vacationers fear being encircled by blazes.
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In Australia, a prolonged period of extremely dry and unusually hot weather has added to the severity of bushfires in the country and can likely be attributed to global warming, he said.
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An ominous pattern Opinion: The bright orange haze of Australia's bushfires may look like something out of a dystopic science fiction film, but they're scenes from an Earth that is becoming uninhabitable.
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Nearly half of the island was burned in bushfires, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and up to 30,000 out of an estimated 60,000 koalas are believed to have been killed.
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Morrison on Monday boosted emergency funding for small businesses hit by the bushfires as the mounting costs of the disaster cast doubt on the government's ability to deliver a promised budget surplus.
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Note strong language in paragraph 3.) By Martin Petty WANDELLA, Australia, Jan 15 (Reuters) - There is little that Australia's deadly bushfires didn't take from dairy and cattle farmers Tim and Warren Stalway.
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The record-breaking heat wave, combined with forecast 60mph winds, is threatening to ramp up bushfires that are raging out of control across New South Wales, the state's premier warned on Wednesday.
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Though hit by floods, extended droughts and more bushfires, Australian voters in May re-elected the Liberal-led center-right coalition headed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is vocally pro-coal.
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SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Thousands of firefighters were fortifying containment lines on Monday as temperatures were forecast to soar, increasing the danger of a fresh wave of bushfires across Australia's east coast.
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Morrison has faced sustained political pressure as the bushfires have raged, following his decision to take a family holiday to Hawaii last week and his conservative Liberal-National coalition government's climate policies.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Firefighters battled hundreds of bushfires across Australia on Thursday as scores of blazes sprang up in new locations, triggering warnings that it was too late for some residents to evacuate.
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When something like the bushfires in Australia happens, tourism officials within other countries would be foolish to turn a blind eye, considering it to be an isolated incident with no impact overseas.
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Winter, her son Riley, and a cousin had been monitoring the bushfires near the town about 250 km (156 miles) south of Sydney when they decided to evacuate on New Year's Eve.
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The Australian dollar, often seen as a proxy for China, weakened 0.5% to $0.6699 after the Reserve Bank of Australia slashed growth forecasts in its quarterly economic outlook, blaming bushfires and the coronavirus.
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Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London will help with emergency seed-collecting in areas devastated by the bushfires and store specimens at its Millennium Seed Bank (MSB)in Britain.
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Instead, the month was dominated by the bushfires that ravaged large swathes of the country's southeast, with retailers across a variety of industries reporting fewer customers and interruptions to trading hours and tourism.
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Almost seven in 10 Australians now believe that climate change is indeed worsening bushfires, and the portion of Australians worried about climate change jumped by 10 percentage points as compared to last summer.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Parts of Australia's east coast were hit by severe storms on Saturday, dousing some of the bushfires that have devastated the region for months but causing road closures and flash flooding.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Parts of Australia's east coast were hit by severe storms on Saturday, dousing some of the bushfires that have devastated the region for months but causing road closures and flash flooding.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Analysts have downgraded forecasts for Australia's economic growth this year as the worst bushfires on record undercut already shaky consumer confidence, adding another burden on consumption and offsetting lower interest rates.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian consumer pessimism deepened in January as households fretted about the economic impact of devastating bushfires that killed 29 people, millions of animals and destroyed thousands of homes in recent months.
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Westpac chief economist Bill Evans said the index could have fallen further but the survey was conducted in the week where there was widespread rain, which somewhat cushioned the hit from the bushfires.
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Last week, more than 30,000 Australians protested in Sydney to condemn what they see as insufficient action taken by the administration to address the bushfires and climate change, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
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But this year has brought a different threat: smoke from the bushfires that have devastated some of Australia this summer, destroying property and leaving at least 3003 people and millions of animals dead.
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But as we've seen recently with bushfires in Australia and fires in unhealthy parts of the rainforest in Brazil, the carbon stored in these forests can suddenly get pumped back into the air.
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Friday's demonstrations came as authorities urged nearly a quarter of a million people to flee their homes and prepared military backup as soaring temperatures and erratic winds fanned bushfires across the east coast.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's rampaging bushfires continue to affect top-level sporting events with a women's soccer match scheduled for Newcastle on Friday postponed because of the poor air quality and expected soaring temperatures.
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"The scale of the bushfires this season, not least their simultaneous reach across many borders, has demonstrated to me the limits of these arrangements," Morrison said in a speech in the capital, Canberra.
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It said strikes in France, bushfires in Australia and the UK General Election had significantly impacted trading in December and that it had seen a "marginally slower" start to 2020 than previous years.
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A major operation to move people stranded in fire-ravaged seaside towns was underway in Australia after deadly bushfires ripped through popular tourist spots and rural areas, leaving at least 20 people dead.
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Hastings River mouse As Australia continues to fight its record-setting bushfires, the scientific community is racing to identify and save the animals in burnt zones that are on the brink of extinction.
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January sales were stable and the company did not see any impact from bushfires in the first weeks of the month, Group Chief Executive Officer Richard Murray said on a call with investors.
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Sluggish wage growth and tepid inflation have been crimping Australia's retail environment for years, but the added impact of bushfires this summer heaped more pressure with consumers dodging shopping for non-essential items.
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The son of the global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has issued a statement decrying coverage from News Corp and Fox News on the role climate change has played in the deadly Australian bushfires.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday confirmed the death toll from bushfires raging around the country had risen to 23, and warned of "another extremely difficult next 24 hours," with dangerous conditions forecast.
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The escalating threat from the bushfires led authorities in New South Wales to declare a weeklong state of emergency and order tourists to leave a 155-mile zone along the picturesque south coast.
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Although bushfires are not unusual in southeastern Australia, this year&aposs are reportedly the worst in the nation&aposs history, scorching over 9.9 million acres of land and destroying at least 1,400 homes.
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Bushfires so far this season have scorched more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres) of bushland and destroyed over 1,000 homes, including 381 homes destroyed on the south coast just this week.
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Friday's demonstrations came as authorities urged nearly a quarter of a million people to flee their homes and prepared military backup as soaring temperatures and erratic winds fanned bushfires across the east coast.
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There will be freshness in the air over Melbourne Park too with Monday's heavy rain likely to further improve conditions for players after qualifying matches were affected by choking smoke from Australia's bushfires.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - To most of the world, the enduring image of Australia's bushfires has been injured koalas, but for former teacher John Creighton, the impact has been far worse for the native wombat.
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Roughly 303 million mammals, birds and reptiles have been affected since bushfires started in September, according to ecologists from the University of Sydney, who add that the actual number is likely much higher.
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Bushfires burnt a third of Kangaroo Island over New Year, killing two people and destroying an estimated quarter of the island's 4,000 Ligurian hives as well as the eucalypts that feed the bees.
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The hand-crafted boards, some dating back to the 1960s, were destroyed by bushfires that swept through Ford's property over New Year, sparing his home but incinerating the shed that housed his collection.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has signaled the government may raise its targets for cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, and was open to the establishment of a powerful royal commission inquiry into the bushfires.
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The record-breaking heat comes in the context of a difficult year in Australia that saw devastating bushfires ravage the country and the longest, farthest-reaching period of poor air quality on record.
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The record-breaking heat comes in the context of a difficult year in Australia that saw devastating bushfires ravage the country and the longest, farthest-reaching period of poor air quality on record.
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The bushfires in Australia are now so big that they are generating their own weather, in the form of giant thunderstorms that start more fires, according to the Bureau of Meteorology in Victoria.
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Photos of the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital in New South Wales show the catastrophic impact the bushfires have had on koalas, and how hospital volunteers are working day and night to rescue them.
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A three-year drought and record high temperatures have created more intense bushfires this season, say firefighters, already weary from months on the firegrounds and staring down two more months of summer heat.
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With bushfires raging across the country and temperatures topping 104 degrees in each state, the amount of heat and moisture in the smoke is so great, they condense into these dangerous storm clouds.
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The family of late wildlife conservationist Steve Irwin says it has saved 90,000 animals at their wildlife hospital in Australia, as bushfires continue to ravage the country and destroy its animals and nature.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison found himself on Sunday again defending his actions in response to the country's unprecedented bushfires crisis that has killed 24 people and left thousands more homeless.
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