bushfires
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Water Thieves Steal 80,000 Gallons In Australia As Our Mad Max-Style Future Becomes Reality
Thieves stole roughly 80,000 gallons of water in a region of Australia that’s suffering from one of the worst droughts in the history of the country. And with record-breaking heat and bushfires getting even larger, it feels like Australia is living in the future. That future, unfortunately, looks a lot like Mad Max.
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Now Australian Cities Are Choking On Smoke, Will We Finally Talk About Climate Change?
I moved to Sydney less than five weeks ago and the city has been shrouded in smoke haze on and off since then. I joke this is my “Sydney hazing” but it’s only now – having worked on climate change for over a decade – that I’m suddenly feeling burnt out. This is not in…
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Sydney Has Its Worst Air Pollution Day On Record
The bushfires have been ravaging much of Australia’s east coast for weeks and while Sydney has been mostly spared, its air quality has not.
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Humans Light 85 Per Cent Of Bushfires And We Do Virtually Nothing To Stop It
It’s hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire. Yet this behaviour regularly occurs in Australia and other countries. We would go a long way to preventing bushfires if we better understood this troubling phenomenon.