A rise in illegal deforestation heightens the risk of fires in the Brazilian rainforest even more destructive than those that drew global outrage last year.
Tag: Wildfires
Coronavirus Lockdowns Strike Australia Residents Hit by Brushfires
A double disaster unlike anything the country has seen before is raising concerns about victims’ mental health and safety.
In Australia, an Architect Designs for a Future of Fire
As the country rebuilds after its devastating wildfires, Ian Weir is leading the push for integrating houses with the land, rather than mass clearance of vegetation.
Chernobyl Wildfires Reignite, Stirring Up Radiation
Wildfires are common in the so-called Zone of Alienation around the abandoned Chernobyl plant. A larger-than-typical fire is stirring up radiation, though levels remain normal in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
Fires Left These Wallabies Nothing to Eat. Help Arrived From Above.
Tons of carrots and sweet potatoes have been dropped from a helicopter in Australia to feed the threatened marsupials.
‘Like Licking an Ashtray’: Fires’ Invisible Threat to Australia’s Wines
The smoke produced by the blazes that ravaged the country may ruin entire vintages, but detecting contamination is a guessing game.
Climate Change Affected Australia’s Wildfires, Scientists Confirm
Human-caused climate change had an impact on Australia’s wildfires, a new attribution study confirms. The 30 percent figure they calculated is a minimum.
The Fires Are Out, but Australia’s Climate Disasters Aren’t Over
Devastating floods came soon after the bush fires. Scientists call it “compound extremes,” as one catastrophe intensifies the next.
The End of Australia as We Know It
What many of us have witnessed this fire season feels alive and monstrous. With climate change forcing a relaxed country to stumble toward new ways of work, leisure and life, will politics follow?
In Australia’s Most Populous State, ‘All Fires Are Contained’
Wildfires that raged for months during a summer of extreme weather are finally under control or gone altogether in New South Wales.