By Matt Johnston9 December 2013 (Herald Sun) – Victorians should prepare for more intense bushfires to flare up more often, a report on climate change warns. The Climate Council, which was the government funded Climate Commission before Prime Minister Tony Abbott removed it from the public purse, will release its report into bushfire risks today. […]
By Brad Plumer14 November 2013 (Washington Post) – From a new study in the journal Science: the first effort to quantify in detail how forests are changing and disappearing over the past decade. The research team, led by the University of Maryland, used Landsat satellite images and Google’s Earth Engine to assemble detailed new maps. […]
By Brad Plumer14 November 2013 (Washington Post) – Want to know where we’re destroying the world’s forests? Here’s the very first high-resolution map showing the change in the world’s tree cover between 2000 and 2012. That comes from a new study published Thursday in the journal Science — the first effort to quantify in detail […]
By Lia Harris6 November 2013 (The Advertiser) – As South Australia prepares for a scorcher with catastrophic fire conditions in some areas, CFS crews have already extinguished two scrub fires overnight and attended a third near Birdwood this morning. CFS crews were called to a grass fire at Forreston, about 5km from Birdwood, at about […]
By Aaron Akinyemi2 November 2013 (International Business Times UK) – The bushfires that have ravaged large swathes of Australia are now advancing towards Sydney, the country’s biggest city. The bustling metropolis has been enveloped in a shroud of smoke due to bushfires burning to the west, with iconic landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House […]
By PETER HECHT24 October 2013 GROVELAND, California (The Sacramento Bee) – Starting Aug. 27, a force of nature devastated the economy of this historic Tuolumne County town, 3,100 feet high on the mountain pass into Yosemite National Park. The Rim fire burned well into October, devouring more than a quarter-million acres of forest. Its choking […]
By Jean Williams25 October 2013 (examiner.com) – Three major bushfires and more than 60 smaller ones have been burning across parts of Southern Australia for seven days without an end in sight, NBC News is reporting. In a risky move, the Blue Mountain region firefighters deliberately joined the State Mine fire with the Mount Victoria […]
By Rick Feneley and Judith Whelan21 October 2013 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Hundreds of thousands of people face a growing bushfire calamity, with the entire Blue Mountains area as well as Penrith and Richmond in danger of burning over the next few days. Premier Barry O’Farrell on Sunday took the extraordinary step of declaring a […]
[NSW bushfires: live updates] 20 October 2013 (BBC News) – A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales as Australian firefighters battle bushfires that have already destroyed more than 200 homes. The announcement comes as conditions look set to deteriorate with soaring temperatures and strong winds expected to fan the flames in […]
17 October 2013 (Canberra Times) – Hundreds of homes may have been lost in Thursday’s fires, the worst in more than 10 years, said the Premier Barry O’Farrell. “It’s suspected that by the time we’ve finished counting it [the loss of homes] will at least be in the hundreds,” he said. It would take days […]
