6 ways you can prepare for the on-coming heatwave
Science & EnvironmentAustralian Geographic spoke with expert heatwave risk management experts to determine what you can do to beat the heat over the next week.
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This is why Aussie ‘firehawk’ raptors are spreading bushfires
NewsA new study has recently confirmed what Indigenous Australians have known all along: our raptors are using bushfires to corner their prey.
Are Australian eucalypts to blame for California’s wildfires?
Science & EnvironmentIt’s been suggested that the introduction of Australian eucalyptus trees may be to blame for the rapid spread of the Southern California wildfires. But experts say the claims just don’t stack up.
Climate change doubled the likelihood of the NSW heatwave
Science & EnvironmentHeat records have tumbled across NSW as the state suffered through the weekend’s heatwave. A new analysis shows that climate change made this kind of event much less of a rarity.
New aerial images reveal bushfire damage in Tasmanian World Heritage Area one year on
NewsRecovery is slow one year after devastating bushfires tore through the pristine wilderness.
Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand
Science & EnvironmentWhen a bushfire rages so high it creates its own thunderstorm, it becomes a ‘firestorm’ – and makes life much more difficult for firefighters. We still have a lot to learn about what triggers them.
Natural disasters are affecting some of Australia’s most disadvantaged communities
Science & EnvironmentResearchers have found a disaster “hotspot” in northern New South Wales, where nearly half of the state’s most disadvantaged communities are found.
Hope for endangered Aussie parrot
NewsSurveyors have discovered the western ground parrot in a WA reserve for the first time in a decade.
Did Aboriginal Australians hold the answer to our bushfire problem?
Science & EnvironmentAboriginal fire management should be part of the solution to destructive bushfires, argues David Bowman, a Professor of Environmental Change Biology at the University of Tasmania.
Fires send Gilbert’s potoroo back to the brink
NewsRecent bushfires in WA have threatened the survival prospects of the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo.