Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfire crisis

Australia fires: Navy rescues people from fire-hit Mallacoota Image copyright Fran Lawson The Australian navy has evacuated around 1,000 tourists and residents who were trapped in the fire-ravaged town of Mallacoota on the Victoria coast. Throughout Friday, landing vessels took people to two ships - MV Sycamore and the much larger HMAS Choules. A local MP, Darren Chester, called it an "unprecedented mass relocation of civilians". Some 4,000 residents and tourists fled to the beach on Monday night, when racing bushfires encircled the town. The evacuees will be taken to Western Port, the navy said - around 16 hours' voyage down the coast. With roads cut off, the military evacuated around 60 people by helicopter on Thursday. The evacuation was voluntary. The larger ship, HMAS Choules, has a "few hundred beds". The evacuees were allowed to take their pets on the ship. Image copyright Darren Chester MP via Twitter Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews declared a state of disaster for six areas and resorts, including Mallacoota. There's plenty to ignite.

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2019–20 Australian bushfires—frequently asked questions: a quick guide 12 March 2020 PDF version [301KB] Lisa Richards and Nigel Brew Foreign Affairs, Defence & Security Lizzie Smith Science, Technology, Environment & Resources This quick guide aims to answer some of the frequently asked questions relating to the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season that started in September 2019. Note: Updates and additions to this quick guide are contained in the July 2021 paper 2019–20 Australian bushfires—frequently asked questions (updates). How many people died? On 4 February 2020 Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed in a speech to Parliament that 33 people died as a result of the 2019–20 bushfires. In a speech to the NSW Parliament on 6 February 2020, NSW Member of Parliament, Greg Piper, was one of several MPs who named another nine people who died (listed below in alphabetical order), and acknowledged a 56‑year-old man who died in the Cobargo fire but was yet to be formally identified: How many firefighters died? How many houses were destroyed? How much land was burned?

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pb Tony Abbott, former Australian PM, tells Israeli radio the world is 'in the grip of a climate cult' | Australia news The Israeli public broadcaster has come under fire from angry listeners after broadcasting an interview with Tony Abbott in which he said the world was “in the grip of a climate cult”. During the interview, recorded on 15 December while his home state of New South Wales was fighting terrifying bushfires, Abbott denied that carbon dioxide was driving global warming. The interview was broadcast on New Year’s Eve in a special show reviewing key international issues of the decade. Abbott said: “While we still seem to be in the grip of a climate cult, the climate cult is going to produce policy outcomes that will cause people to wake up to themselves.” After claiming, incorrectly, that a focus on emissions reduction in Australia had caused blackouts and rising power prices, Abbott said: “Sooner or later, in the end, people get hit over the head by reality.” Mor-Cicurel asked Abbott if he was “denying that fact we are in the process of global warming and global change”.

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WWF to fund solar powered ear tags to save koalas during bushfires A solar panel the size of a five cent coin could be the key to saving koalas the next time bushfires ravage* the country. Scientists are working on a way to quickly find koalas in the path of a bushfire using ear tag tracking devices that weigh less than a slice of bread. Once the koalas are located they can be kept safe until their habitat regenerates and monitored once they are released. Koalas have already been fitted with bluetooth ear tags that allow mobile phones to detect their location within 20m, but scientists are now working to fit solar powered ear tags with VHF* transmitters* detectable from 250m away. Tests have shown that drones flying in grid patterns can map the VHF signal from the transmitters, allowing wildlife rescuers to swoop in and nab the koalas before a bushfire engulfs them. An estimated 5000 koalas perished in the Black Summer bushfires in 2019-2020, sparking fears koalas could become extinct in NSW before 2050. Census to count every koala in bid to save species 2.

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Australia fires: The government is clinging to coal as the country burns The devastating bushfires across Australia have cemented the fact that the country is on the front lines of a major climate-linked disaster, one that scientists saw coming and one that will only get worse from here. The fires have already torched an area larger than West Virginia, destroyed 2,000 homes, and killed at least 26 people since igniting in September. The blazes clouded the skies above cities like Canberra and Sydney, creating some of the worst air pollution in the world. The swirling smoke is so dense, satellites can see it from space. Yet as the deadly flames continue to spread and smoke smothers major cities, Australia’s government is dismissing its own contributions to the problem. Government officials continue to downplay the link between climate change and wildfires. Morrison last week tried to walk back his stance while still dodging the question of Australia’s contributions to climate change. Australia is an outsized contributor to climate change Yes, I'll give $120/year

Australia fires: Smoke turns New Zealand skies 'eerie' yellow Media playback is unsupported on your device Smoke from huge bushfires in Australia is drifting as far as New Zealand, 2,000km (1,200 miles) away, leading to haze and a burnt smell in the air. Australia is grappling with a bushfire crisis fuelled by record-breaking temperatures and months of drought. The smoke first reached New Zealand's South Island on 31 December, turning skies a murky yellow. Since then, the south's famous glaciers have vanished in haze and even North Island has seen its skies turn "eerie". At least 18 people are confirmed to have been killed by the bushfires, which have burned vast areas of several Australian states. Several people are still missing and conditions are expected to worsen over the coming weekend. Image copyright Alpine Guides Blue skies turned yellow "I have never seen anything like the haze over the past 48 hours," Arthur McBride of glacier tour company Alpine Guides told the BBC. Image Copyright @MissRoho @MissRoho Image copyright Rey 'Twilight' over Dunedin

Businesses not taking reusable containers to prevent COVID-19 spread | Regina Leader Post The temporary move away from reusables has sparked some criticism on social media for its environmental impact. “I guess we have to put environmentalism on hold during this common cold season,” said one tweet directed at Tim Hortons. While we are all concerned about the environment, said Blondeau, the world is facing the potential continuing global spread of a virus that has a mortality rate associated with it and part of the recommendations from professionals and governments across Canada is to try and prevent that. “If there is a short-term cost to the environmental movement here, I think that people will say that it’s a reasonable thing to do to prevent loss of life,” he said, adding he wouldn’t be surprised if Canadians begin to see even more measures or suggestions of how to prevent further spread of the virus as time goes on. “We are all learning about this as each days goes by and it’s very difficult to predict what the next month or two is going to look like,” said Blondeau.

Well-watered mulberry tree credited with saving home on NSW South Coast from summer bushfires When Brett Hawkins returned to his remote property in Upper Brogo, north of Bega, after the 2019 New Year's Eve bushfires, he never expected to find his home and one tree left unscathed among total devastation. Key points: The mudbrick home of Brett Hawkins and Wendy Wolff survived the summer bushfires alongside a mulberry treeThey believed that by keeping the tree watered, it helped it to resist the fireThe bushfire survivors were given a new purpose to stay on the property Living in dense bushland on the edge of Wadbilliga National Park, on the New South Wales Far South Coast, Mr Hawkins and partner Wendy Wolff evacuated as the Badja Road Fire encroached, and spent the night with hundreds of other evacuees in Bermagui, before returning three days later. "It was apocalyptic," Mr Hawkins said. "There was not a tree left, ash on the ground and smouldering embers everywhere." But among the blackened trees, Mr Hawkins found his mudbrick house and mulberry tree in full leaf. Key points: