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Secrets and fires: saving our 'dinosaur' trees
Shhhhh. How specialist remote-area fire crews saved the ancient Wollemi pines.
Tag: fire
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Wildlife needs fire-damaged and dead trees after fires
Fire damaged trees prove to be the perfect habitat for recovering wildlife.
Creatura Blog
This majestic raptor is a fire-wielding ninja
Is there anything cooler than a bird of prey that can spread fires using lit sticks, and is so sneaky, it can out-scavenge an ibis?
Science & Environment
6 ways you can prepare for the on-coming heatwave
Australian 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
A new study has recently confirmed what Indigenous Australians have known all along: our raptors are using bushfires to corner their prey.
Science & Environment
Are Australian eucalypts to blame for California’s wildfires?
It’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.
Science & Environment
Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand
When 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.
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Hiding in plain sight – the common orchid you can go decades without seeing
This orchid only flowers after a fire, so you may not spot colonies of these striking plants in bloom for decades.
Science & Environment
Did Aboriginal Australians hold the answer to our bushfire problem?
Aboriginal 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.
Science & Environment
Satellite image of Adelaide fires
The huge bushfires around Adelaide could be seen from space