St Vincent de Paul Society Bushfire Appeal (NSW)Vinnies&apos bushfire appeal helps provide food, clothing and money that bushfire victims may need to pay their bills.4.
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"Today we agreed that we would support the National Bushfire Recovery Agency by establishing a National Bushfire Recovery Fund," Morrison said at a press conference.
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Retailing for $19.99 Australian dollars, all proceeds from the "Bushfire Heroes" figure will go toward the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' National Bushfire Appeal.
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"I'm delighted to confirm the Bushfire Cricket Bash will be Cricket Australia's major fundraising initiative to support Australians impacted by the recent unprecedented bushfire emergency," CA Chief Executive Kevin Roberts said.
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Australia is currently battling its worst bushfire season in history.
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"Imagine fighting a bushfire higher than this billboard," it read.
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It was called in to fight a bushfire near Cooma.
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Proceeds from ticket sales will go to Australia's bushfire relief.
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A bushfire rages at an average speed of 22.53kph [14mph].
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A bushfire burns outside a property near Taree on Nov. 12.
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The Australian Parliament in Canberra, blanketed by bushfire smoke, Jan. 23.
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It could be particularly useful in a bushfire context, he adds.
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The dry, arid land has also contributed to Australia's bushfire crisis.
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As of Monday, the bushfire burned over 179,000 hectares (442,000 acres).
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A bushfire burns outside a property near Taree on Nov. 212.
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"Westpac has adjusted its GDP forecasts for the bushfire effect, lowering GDP growth in both the December and March quarters by 0.1%, reflecting the impact on tourism; agriculture; and regional retail of the bushfire crisis," Evans said.
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Perry had been in Australia to perform at a bushfire relief concert.
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READ: What does weeks of bushfire smoke actually do to your lungs?
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And there are least two more months of bushfire season to go.
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READ: What Does Weeks of Bushfire Smoke Actually Do to Your Lungs?
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Australia has been experiencing one of its worst bushfire seasons on record.
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A bushfire in Shoalhaven, New South Wales continued to burn on Monday.
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Residents defend a property from a bushfire in Hillville on Nov. 12.
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These shrubs are another example of plants that can recover after a bushfire.
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What they do know is that animals face several stressors after any bushfire.
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Is still suffering some serious burns after being rescued from a bushfire yesterday.
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The usually amazing view from Bloomberg's rooftop obscured by choking bushfire smoke. pic.twitter.
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The tree is built out of collected bushfire remnants from our scorched state.
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A number of celebrities have also showed their support for the bushfire cause.
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Horses in a paddock watch a bushfire in the town of Bilpin, Dec.
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Bushfire smoke is particularly hazardous because of the high levels of tiny particles.
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With all this catastrophe, who in the world would deliberately start a bushfire?
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The large particles in bushfire smoke irritate the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs.
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Speakers crying as they talk of #bushfire and #heatwave devastation #wherethebloodyhellareya #ClimateEmergency pic.twitter.
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Firefighters tackle a bushfire to save a home in Taree on Nov. 9.
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A firefighter defends a property from a bushfire in Hillville on Nov. 12.
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Nearly half a billion animals are believed to have died this bushfire season.
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Last month, the insurer had received more than 2000,600 bushfire-related claims since September.
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January 1, 2020: Out of necessity, Australia opens 15 South Coast bushfire evacuation centers.
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"Imagine fighting a bushfire higher than this billboard," the video in the billboard reads.
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Despite cooler weather this week, officials warned that bushfire threat was far from over.
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But Australia's bushfire disaster is not confined to the impact it's had on people.
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In November, bushfire destroyed two buildings and scorched a chapel on the actor's property.
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" He also called on Morrison to "declare a Royal Commission into the bushfire crisis.
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So there's great potential for increased bushfire activity over the next month or so.
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And, of course, we are only part of the way through the bushfire season.
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A lot of open questions persist around how an intense bushfire influences its environment.
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Prolonged periods of high temperatures are much more frequent, and bushfire seasons are longer.
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Horses in a paddock become restless as a bushfire nears Bilpin on Dec. 23.
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"More people are living in high-risk bushfire areas, emergency services are stretched and the climate is rapidly changing," said Andrew Gissing, an emergency management expert with the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Center, a nonprofit supported by the Australian government.
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A firefighter defends a property from a bushfire at Hillville near Taree, on Nov. 12.
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Lizzo chose to take time out from her Australian tour to help bushfire affected victims.
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Here are Tuesday's key events in the bushfire crisis: * NSW firefighters were tackling 60 fires.
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A week ago, the city's airport was closed briefly when bushfire burned near its edges.
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This bushfire crisis is taking place on sacred Indigenous lands, where sovereignty was never ceded.
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But we're also still approaching a time [of year] where major bushfire disasters have occurred.
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Ball joins tennis star Nick Kyrgios in donating money to relief efforts for bushfire victims.
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Therefore tonight, I will be pledging $1 million dollars to support the bushfire relief fund.
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In Green Wattle Creek, near Bargo, a bushfire was still raging as of Monday afternoon.
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The strike team from Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) Station 509 were located on Hames Road on the outskirts of South Nowra — an area currently listed with a Bushfire Emergency Warning, the highest level of bushfire alert — when the raging fire blazed around the truck.
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" He also warned this "could be the most dangerous bushfire week this nation has ever seen.
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But scientists have warned for more than a decade that an extreme bushfire season was coming.
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In 2009, 180 people died in an explosive outbreak of bushfire in Australia's state of Victoria.
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Australians must work to understand how warming temperatures will affect bushfire dynamics over the coming years.
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PT. The bushfire the crash ignited made it difficult for emergency personnel to access the aircraft.
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Chemists and hardware stores across Australia are selling out of masks as the bushfire crisis continues.
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This year's bushfire season in Australia has been described as one of the worst on record.
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In Australia, climate change means the intense bushfire season seen this year could happen more often.
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For support and information about how to donate to the Australian bushfire relief efforts, visit www.redcross.org.
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In practice, here's how the status quo plays out: Amazon donates $690,000 to bushfire relief efforts.
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NAB will separately release results of a special bushfire-related survey in coming weeks, it added.
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The prolonged bushfire season has killed 33 people and an estimated 1 billion native animals since September.
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A woman in Australia saved a badly wounded, crying koala from a bushfire in New South Wales.
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It also means the country faces a long, tough bushfire season, fire authorities warned earlier this week.
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A prolonged drought that began in 2017 made this year&aposs bushfire season more devastating than ever.
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December 21, 2019: A bushfire in the East Gippsland region of Victoria begins creating its own weather.
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Following the match, she announced that she would donate her winnings, $43,000, to the Australian bushfire relief.
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Iconic Sydney, choked in bushfire smoke, is swamped in some of the most atrocious air on Earth.
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It may not be the end of the bushfire season, but the rain is a positive sign.
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Australia: The Binna Burra Lodge, one of the country's oldest nature resorts, was destroyed by a bushfire.
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A wallaby licks its burned paws after escaping a bushfire near the township of Nana Glen, Nov.
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Hotter drought means both elevated bushfire risk and unstoppable fires as we've all seen in the media.
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" Dr. Guo stressed, however, that "everyone in the country should be prepared [for the current bushfire season].
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But seeds that can survive a typical bushfire might not be able to withstand these uber-fires.
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The 229-231 Australian bushfire season marks the most destructive and widespread season in the country's history.
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Trees are burned black after a bushfire in Old Bar, 350 kilometres north of Sydney on Nov. 123.
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A koala with a leg injury after its rescue from a bushfire at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital.
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Lizzo lent a hand in Melbourne, Australia sorting through donations and packing food hampers for bushfire-affected families.
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But Tennis Australia, the organization behind the Open, says it has a plan to tackle the bushfire smoke.
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This the view from the top of the Tasman Glacier NZ today - whole South island experiencing bushfire clouds.
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Last week, authorities in the state sent 250,000 texts to people in bushfire-affected areas ordering them evacuate.
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Meanwhile, the Australian Red Cross is accepting donations via their website to help bushfire victims across Australia recover.
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Finally, the announcement of a 2 billion Australian dollar ($1.4 billion) bushfire recovery fund, with assistance from the
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Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison formed a National Bushfire Recovery Agency funded with $1.4 billion.
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A long-awaited dose of rainfall helped add vital moisture to the region and prevent further bushfire damage.
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In addition to the abnormal bushfire conditions, two atmospheric systems are driving winds through Australia&aposs hot interior.
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The bushfire crisis has spread across three states so far, and one person was found dead on Saturday.
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However, the bushfire and worsened air quality may make some people not that eager to travel to Australia.
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A car sprayed with fire retardant after a bushfire in a residential area of Sydney on Nov. 12.
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"Fleabag's" Phoebe Waller-Bridge will auction her 2020 Golden Globes suit to raise money for Australian bushfire relief.
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It&aposs currently battling two major fires as part of the devastating bushfire season that has gripped Australia.
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In the near-term though, a devastating bushfire season and the coronavirus outbreak in China have darkened the outlook.
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Compared to other recent fires (and even to the US' worst blaze ever), Australia's bushfire crisis tops the list.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has been heavily criticised for poor leadership during the bushfire crisis, attended the funeral.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has been heavily criticized for poor leadership during the bushfire crisis, attended the funeral.
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As of Thursday, the Adaminaby Complex Bushfire was ripping through The Snowy Monaro region in southern New South Wales.
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An unprecedented summer bushfire season has burned over 4.6 million hectares, with lives lost and hundreds of homes destroyed.
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Fire and Rescue personal prepare to attempt to extinguish a bushfire near the town of Bilpin on Dec. 19.
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Tennis star Maria Sharapova has pledged $17,400 to bushfire relief, a donation which has been matched by Novak Djokovic.
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Walking through the wreckage of a bushfire disaster zone, one of the first things you notice is the trees.
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Science Minister Karen Andrews was to meet with scientists, researchers and bushfire experts Wednesday to address the fire disaster.
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It's called crowning -- when a bushfire moves through the tops of trees or shrubs, burning independently above the ground.
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Death toll for this year's bushfire is way far from that for "Black Saturday", but still brings huge damage.
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The current bushfire season in southeastern Australia, which began in October 2019, is the worst in recorded Australian history.
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Some of the bushfire smoke has even crossed the Tasman Sea to cover parts of New Zealand, ABC reported.
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Firefighters try to save houses from an encroaching bushfire at Lakes Way on the Mid North Coast of NSW, Nov.
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A car sprayed with fire retardant is seen after a bushfire in the residential area of Sydney on Nov. 12.
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This is one of Australia's worst bushfire seasons, with parts of the country facing the worst droughts in living memory.
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In January, three American firefighters were killed when their water tanker plane crashed while fighting a bushfire from the air.
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More recently, McKenzie served as Minister for Agriculture, a high-profile role given Australia's sustained drought and ongoing bushfire crisis.
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Cats are making Australia's bushfire tragedy even worse Animals trying to escape Australia's fires now face a new adversary: cats.
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Australian Open men's champion Novak Djokovic expressed concern earlier this month that bushfire smoke might cause health problems for players.
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The bushfire video features an infographic with dots filling a map of Australia to show the spread of the fire.
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Other celebrities, such as the members of Metallica, Elton John, Kacey Musgraves and Lizzo have donated to Australian bushfire relief.
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In response to Australia's own climate crisis, Tame Impala will donate $300,000 to bushfire relief efforts from their forthcoming tour.
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An injured koala receives treatment at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital after its rescue from a bushfire on November 19.
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If you'd like to join Lizzo in supporting the bushfire crisis, you can click the link in bio to donate.
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Australia's bushfire crisis has seen over 11 million acres burned since November, with approximately 900 homes ruined in NSW alone.
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Sunday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the company is donating $2000,22018 ($220 million AUD) to Australian bushfire relief efforts.
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Further north in Queensland, bushfire season typically starts in August, earlier in the year than New South Wales and Victoria.
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The current bushfire season in New South Wales, which began in October 2019, is the worst in recorded Australian history.
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"I'm extremely concerned ... this is going to be a horrible bushfire season," state premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney.
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But many Australians remain frustrated with their government's response to the bushfire crisis and ongoing risks stemming from climate change.
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If you have any doubts in your mind that you are in a bushfire-prone area, do not be there.
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He'll also participate in an event called AO Rally for Relief as part of the Aces for Bushfire Relief program.
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In 2010 a bushfire survivor was rushed to hospital after reportedly being mauled by a wombat who he'd accidentally stepped on.
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And in 2009, a bushfire destroyed much of the Royal Palaces, spreading rapidly across the tombs of past kings and queens.
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Australia had an early and fierce start to its bushfire season, with an elderly couple killed in a blaze in October.
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This is one of Australia's worst bushfire seasons with a record number of emergency warnings and firefighters battling dozens of fires.
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Bushfire risk is above normal for approximately one third of Australia, and the season will begin earlier in in Australia's southeast.
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The prolonged exposure of bushfire smoke to millions of people has raised fears of health effects that could last for years.
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But it was "a little too early" to tell if the bushfire crisis was shifting views on climate change, he added.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Kyrgios had tweeted here to Tennis Australia and proposed a charity exhibition match to help the bushfire victims.
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Morrison has been widely criticised throughout Australia for his handling of the bushfire crisis, even by members of his own party.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Taylor, a 4-year-old English springer spaniel, has been among the hard working rescuers during Australia's bushfire crisis.
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"Something is clearly changing," said Richard Thornton, the chief executive of the Melbourne-based Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Center.
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She's also done a lot of good there, and even donated $250,000 back in 2009 after a smaller bushfire broke out.
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Nearly half a billion animals — mammals, birds, and reptiles — are believed to have died since the start of this bushfire season.
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Read more:Serena Williams won her first tennis tournament since 2017 and is donating the $43,000 prize to Australian bushfire reliefNick Kyrgios will donate $200 for every ace he serves this summer to the victims of Australia&aposs bushfire crisisA tennis player was forced to abandon an Australian Open match over a coughing fit caused by smoke from bushfires
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With this in mind, VICE spoke to Dr. Geoff Cary, Associate Professor of Bushfire Science at ANU's Fenner School of Environment & Society, to discuss Australia's ongoing bushfire crisis: the possibility of it getting better in the near future, the probability of it getting worse, and what it's going to take to bring it to an end.
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EST, and she said she would donate all the proceeds from her "Pokémon Sword and Shield" stream to Australian bushfire recovery efforts.
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On January 6, a lightning strike triggered a bushfire in Lane Pool Reserve, located near the city of Perth in Southwest Australia.
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Well, the team at EchidnaCSI point out that there was a bushfire nearby, so this little guy was probably caught in it.
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"This has been an unprecedented start to the bushfire and storm season in Australia," said Chief Executive Steve Johnston in a statement.
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Though every bushfire or wildfire has multiple influences, rising average temperatures mean more fire weather, which boosts the odds for increased flames.
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The ATP on Sunday pledged $500,000 to the WWF Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund as part of the bushfire relief efforts.
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Kidman and her husband Keith Urban donated $500,000 to bushfire relief efforts while Hemsworth shared a list of organizations for donations. P!
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In order to support people in bushfire-affected areas, we hope people visit these areas even after the relief work is finished.
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Insurer Suncorp Group said it received 2,600 bushfire-related claims since September, estimating costs of up to A$345 million ($13 million).
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Extreme heat and strong winds contributed to the quick spread of bushfire, leading to mass evacuations, according to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
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A resident inspects the burn injuries on a cow he put down after a bushfire ravaged his paddock in Coolagolite, Jan. 1.
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A model says she's raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Australian bushfire relief by offering nude photos in exchange for donations.
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Prince Charles has delivered a heartfelt message to the people of Australia affected by the bushfire crisis in a rare Instagram video.
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" The rumors have "spread so quickly, and with such fervor, because the climate change link to bushfire season is essentially undeniable now.
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On Friday after prayer service, the center hosted a sausage sizzle, selling plates of food to raise money for the bushfire victims.
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We also know that a lot of the animals we're looking for are dead because of drought or bushfire, which is depressing.
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Now, every state in Australia has been affected by the bushfire, in NSW, there are around 2M hectares of land being fired.
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A mega blaze northwest of Sydney, the country's largest city, is the biggest bushfire on record, burning some 335,000 hectares (830,000 acres).
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Although bushfires are common in Australia during the hot spring and summer months, this year's bushfire season has been the worst on record.
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Misinformation about all-powerful Green lobbyists and bureaucratic green tape surfaces every bushfire season, pushed by fringe groups and conservative Australian media outlets.
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Williams is one of several public figures to show their support for Australian bushfire relief efforts by pledging to donate time or money.
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Warne raised more than A$1 million ($690,000) on Friday when he auctioned off his prized "baggy green" cap for bushfire relief efforts.
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Two days later, the Australian government announced a $76 million AUD ($50 million USD) tourism recovery package in response to bushfire-related cancellations.
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Simply put, drier, hotter, windier weather makes wildfires worse, and dry, hot winds can desiccate a landscape, turning it into pure bushfire fuel.
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At least 25 people have died from Australia's bushfire crisis, half a billion animals have perished, and thousands of homes have been destroyed.
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Australia is currently experiencing what is likely its worst bushfire season in history, but I never thought I&aposd be trapped in it.
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Australian comedian Celeste Barber, who has family near the bushfire-hit town of Eden on the country's south eastern coast, and popstars P!
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If the 2019-2020 bushfire season were a once-in-a-century event, then perhaps most of Australia's wild places would eventually rebound.
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A resident inspects the burn injuries on a cow he put down after a bushfire ravaged his property in Coolagolite on Jan. 1.
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A picture tweeted on Sunday by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service depicts, ironically, a bushfire warning sign being drowned by murky floodwaters.
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By contrast, Bernie Worthington in Western Australia lost his vineyard when a bushfire burned his property in Waroona in the state's southwest last week.
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Reuters TV An emergency warning was reissued for an out-of-control bushfire that is raging across parts of the Australian city of Sydney.
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The program analysed fire warning data between 212 and 212, and found that bushfire conditions have indeed gotten worse in these areas across Australia.
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The remains of a house are seen after a bushfire destroyed a property in Old Bar, 350 kilometres north of Sydney on Nov. 10.
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On Monday, the prime minister announced that his government will be committing $2 billion Australian dollars over two years to bushfire recovery, Reuters reported.
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The Bureau of Meteorology on Monday issued a severe thunderstorm warning for large parts of New South Wales state including bushfire-affected coastal towns.
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A week earlier, a player collapsed in a coughing fit and retired from qualifying amid a thick pall of bushfire smoke over the court.
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It used to be well-known in the bush that the best thing to do during a bushfire was to remain on your property.
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He had called on the tennis world to help the victims of Australia's bushfire crisis and triggered an appeal that raised millions of dollars.
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Williams also announced after her win that she would donate the $43,000 of prize money from the tournament to Australian bushfire relief, reported CNN.
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On Tuesday, Slovenian player Dalila Jakupovic had to abandon her Australian Open qualifying match after suffering a coughing fit caused by the bushfire smoke.
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The visa extension is part of a larger initiative by Australia to boost tourism in the wake of bushfire season and coronavirus travel bans.
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Officials have said this bushfire season is likely to be the worst on record, as millions of acres of land have already been razed.
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At least 25 people have died as a result of the ongoing bushfire crisis, and around 2,000 homes have been destroyed across multiple states.
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Officials have said that this bushfire season may likely be the worst on record, as millions of acres of land have already been razed.
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Australia has become an inferno: Since the start of the bushfire season in September, an estimated 25.5 million acres have burned, according to Reuters.
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"I've got to be honest with you: This isn't a bushfire; it's an atomic bomb," NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance told ABC Radio Sydney.
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Dry lightning has already been blamed for igniting the majority of blazes in Australia's current bushfire season, which has been unprecedented in its severity.
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Australia fires Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has admitted there were things he "could have handled much better" in his country's deadly bushfire crisis.
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Here are today's key events in the bushfire crisis: * Suburbs near Canberra Airport were evacuated late on Wednesday as an emergency level fire burned.
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Impeccable timing Shocking time-lapse video shows the sky turning dark as a bushfire takes over the Australian countryside in less than four minutes.
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Australia is going through its worst bushfire season on record, with fires burning since September taking 28 lives, and destroying more than 2,500 homes.
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While climate change is playing a role in creating extreme bushfire conditions, a "perfect storm" of factors has led to Sydney&aposs smoky state.
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Major roads in and out of Narooma were closed, leaving her trapped along with thousands of others who had evacuated from bushfire affected areas.
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Tennis star Nick Kyrgios says he will donate "$200 (US$140) per ace" this summer to help the victims of Australia&aposs bushfire crisis.
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Winter's family eventually found a reprieve at Moruya's Waterfront Hotel, which owners Mark and Linda Ethell have opened to help their bushfire ravaged community.
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"It's incredible that after our horror bushfire season any government would now encourage new fossil fuel projects," said Environment Victoria Chief Executive Jono La Nauze.
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American pop star Miley Cyrus pulled out of a bushfire charity relief concert scheduled at Albert Park on Friday, citing advice from U.S. health authorities.
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Here are key events in the bushfire crisis: * Early on Tuesday, 86 fires were burning across New South Wales, none above the lowest warning level.
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Business Insider Today spoke with members of Firesticks, an organization of Indigenous fire practitioners who believe their ancient techniques could solve Australia&aposs bushfire crisis.
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Insurance Australia Group, insurer Suncorp Group and QBE Insurance Group also posted robust gains, despite flagging a surge in bushfire-related claims in recent weeks.
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There has been much speculation about bushfire smoke affecting the tournament, with players already being forced to abandon their qualifying matches or seek medical treatment.
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Athletes at the Australian Open are breathing in poor-quality air polluted by bushfire smoke, making it nearly impossible for them to do their jobs.
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He has since been more involved and on Monday he announced the creation National Bushfire Recovery Agency, which would receive about $1.4 billion in funding.
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But what's not going away until there we see more rainfall is the drought, which is one of the key factors in these bushfire events.
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Read more:&aposYou&aposre not welcome, you f-----&apos: Videos show Australia&aposs prime minister heckled and hounded out of a bushfire-ravaged town by furious locals8 ways you can donate money to Australia&aposs bushfire relief effortI spent New Year&aposs trapped by Australian bushfires that looked like a scene from a warzone Red skies are blanketing southeast Australia as hundreds of fires ravage the country
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My first stream is gunna be on February 18th at 3pm PST– I'll donate 100% of proceeds from the first stream to Australian bushfire recovery efforts.
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Victoria still had 18 bushfire warnings in place, though the rain was steadily making its way down the coast and into the northeast of the state.
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The Nationals leadership challenge comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison battles to regain voter support following wide spread criticism of his handling of Australia's bushfire crisis.
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These days, thanks to research after Black Saturday, the criminal profile for bushfire arson is fairly well defined, but to my way of thinking, unsatisfyingly clinical.
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A woman in Australia saved a crying koala from a bushfire by scooping the animal up with her shirt and taking it away from the flames.
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Since the start of the bushfire season in September, an estimated 25.5 million acres have burned, according to Reuters, and at least 153 people have died.
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Former world number one Rod Laver pledged to donate the proceeds of an auction of one of his favorite Dunlop 13 raquets for Australian bushfire relief.
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Speaking to reporters from a bushfire-ravaged island in southern Australia, Morrison said the situation in Iraq was very fluid and he was receiving constant updates.
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Williams will also be playing in a charity match supporting bushfire relief on January 15 with fellow tennis stars Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal, CNN reported.
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Here are Wednesday's key events in the bushfire crisis: * New South Wales state firefighters were tackling 91 fires, none above the lowest warning level of "advice".
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The warming climate is leading to more prolonged and severe bushfire seasons, a trend scientists expect will get worse if carbon emissions aren't brought down rapidly.
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Australia's record-setting drought became a record-setting bushfire season in September when lightning strikes and a few cases of arson met with moisture-free landscapes.
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Thousands of Australians took to the streets in nine cities in Australia on Friday to protest the government's inaction on climate change and the bushfire crisis.
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We took every precaution, downloaded every app to keep tabs on bushfire warnings, and shrunk the length of our trip in order to mitigate the danger.
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Australia's devastating bushfire season is far from over despite cooler weather this week, Victorian state officials warned on Tuesday as Melbourne was blanketed by hazardous smoke.
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On Friday morning local time, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said that the number of people missing from bushfire affected areas in Victoria has risen to 28.
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The pedestrian economic activity is becoming an increasing headache for Prime Minster Scott Morrison who has pledged support to rebuild communities ravaged by the prolonged bushfire season.
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So far this bushfire season in Australia has killed at least 30 people, destroyed 2,000 homes, and burned through 10 million hectares of land, the BBC reported.
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Australia is battling its worst bushfire season on record, with blazes burning since September, killing 29 people and razing bushland across an area the size of Bulgaria.
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Australia is battling its worst bushfire season on record, with blazes burning since September killing 29 people and razing bushland across an area the size of Bulgaria.
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"It feels more like an indoor court," said the 21-year-old, whose 42 aces in the tournament will translate into $8,400 towards bushfire relief in Australia.
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Earlier this month, the country extended the visa timeframe from six months to a full year in order to allow visitors to aid in bushfire recovery efforts.
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Fire models use historical observations to make calculations like: In the past, this much vegetation at this level of dryness has led to this kind of bushfire.
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On January 4, Simon Wadsworth, a volunteer with the Gol Gol Rural Fire Brigade, watched as a bushfire hit a gas station in the town of Batlow.
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The Victorian Bushfire AppealThe Victorian Government teamed up with The Salvation Army and Bendigo Bank for the appeal, with all funds going to communities in need.7.
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In recent weeks, Canberra and the cities of Sydney and Melbourne experienced air quality rated among the worst in the world under thick clouds of bushfire smoke.
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Till now, the most severe bushfire in Australia is the one which happened in Feb 2016, causing 200 deaths, so that day was called as "Black Saturday".
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At least 17 people have died since the bushfire season began in August and scores of wildlife have been killed across some 231,219 square miles of devastation.
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The Australian ultra-marathon runner received burns to 224 percent of her body when she became caught in a bushfire while competing in Western Australia five years ago.
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Fanned by blustery, hot winds, the bushfire, which razed 58,000 hectares (143,321 acres) of land this week, ripped through the small rural town of Yarloop on Thursday night.
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A bushfire breaks containment lines, crosses the Pacific Highway and burns through properties in the township of Rainbow Flat on the Mid North Coast of NSW, Nov. 9.
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On Monday local time, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledged a $2 billion bushfire recovery fund, which will assist in rebuilding devastated areas over the next two years.
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Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a $20 million federal grant to lease four firefighting aircraft, as Australia battles its worst bushfire season on record.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (Reuters) - Australian Open organisers are monitoring the deteriorating air quality in Melbourne and said matches could be suspended if conditions become hazardous amid the bushfire crisis.
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Some economists are predicting the bushfire crisis could put a brake on Australia's economic growth this quarter, that could force an interest rate cut as soon as February.
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Major roads are now closed with more than 21 fires blazing in the area on Monday as part of one of the country&aposs worst-ever bushfire seasons.
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According to Brian Williams, captain of Kurrajong Heights fire brigade, Australia has been burning less than 1 percent of its bushfire-prone land for the past 85033 years.
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Lower thermal coal prices and falling China demand dented Whitehaven's earnings, while labour shortages, dust from drought and bushfire smoke hit production at its New South Wales mine.
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"The ability to provide exposure to dangerous bushfire conditions allows volunteers to immerse themselves in realistic scenarios they would not normally be exposed to during training," says Paterson.
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In the small town of Balmoral, New South Wales, home to about 400 people, at least 20 structures are believed to have been destroyed in a recent bushfire.
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On Monday local time, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledged a $2 billion bushfire recovery fund, which will assist in rebuilding devastated areas over the next two years.
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Warne, 50, is one of many domestic and international athletes, from cricketers and tennis players to Australian NBA players, to have pledged to support the fundraising for bushfire victims.
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Former Australia cricketer Shane Warne, who raised over $690,000 by auctioning off his prized "baggy green" cap, will play in a charity Twenty20 game next month for bushfire relief.
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Australia's continuing, catastrophic bushfire crisis has seen at least 28 people killed, an estimated 10 million hectares burned, and a decimated animal population with numbers yet to be confirmed.
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Main events on Friday in the bushfire crisis: ** There were 60 active fires in NSW, one at emergency level, 27 in Victoria, of which three were at emergency level.
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Here are Thursday's key events in the bushfire crisis: * There were five fires burning in the state of South Australia, 64 in New South Wales and 18 in Victoria.
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Surreal photos show smoke from Australia's bushfires turning the sky in New Zealand orange — 1,200 miles awayHere are 8 ways you can donate money to Australia's bushfire relief effort
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Bencic's serve also lacks punch, so she has not joined other Tour players by pledging money for Australia's bushfire relief efforts with every ace she hits at Melbourne Park.
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We have experienced the hottest days that I can remember, and right now I can't even open any windows because my eyes sting and lungs hurt from bushfire smoke.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised the government will invest at least $2 billion over for a "recovery fund" to assist with recovery after a severe bushfire season.
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Read more:Chris Hemsworth and his family are donating $1 million to Australia fire relief effortsSurreal photos show smoke from Australia&aposs bushfires turning the sky in New Zealand orange — 1,200 miles awayAn Instagram model deactivated her account after posting a wet T-shirt photo to promote Australian bushfire relief effortsTerrifying video shows Australian air force pilots flying through a haze of orange smoke that prevented them from completing a bushfire rescue mission
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Ronda's first stream will be next Monday ... and if you weren't already psyched to watch, Rousey says, "100% of proceeds from the first stream go to Australian bushfire recovery efforts."
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Category award: Documentary shortlist Series name: The BurningAbout the series: Moir documented the Green Wattle Creek bushfire in southeast Australia, one of many that have caused widespread destruction throughout Australia.
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Australia is suffering one of its worst bushfire seasons, which is occurring even before the start of the Southern Hemisphere summer, with parts of the country crippled by severe drought.
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" Fires have been a focus of in-depth reports since at least 2013, when the nonprofit Climate Council issued its first one: "Be Prepared: Climate Change the Australian Bushfire Threat.
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Summer doesn't hit Down Under until December, but this bushfire season is already showing potential to be one of the most devastating in recent years — for humans and wildlife alike.
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Terrifying video posted to Twitter shows Royal Australian Air Force pilots navigating through a thick haze of orange smoke that prevented them from completing rescue missions in bushfire-impacted towns.
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A Facebook fundraiser by Australian comedian Celeste Barber has raised over $123 million for New South Wales' volunteer firefighters, providing them with some much-needed help during Australia's bushfire crisis.
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All three arenas have a retractable roof which will be used this year if conditions become hazardous due to bushfire smoke from fires blazing in New South Wales and Victoria.
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Although rain showers have given some brief reprieve to bushfire-ravaged communities in southern NSW, it's not enough to completely extinguish the dozens of blazes still burning around the state.
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After Williams won the singles title in Auckland, New Zealand, this month — her first title in nearly three years — she donated her prize money of about $43,000 to bushfire relief.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — In the shadow of the country's bushfire crisis, the best tennis players in the world have traveled to Australia for the first Grand Slam event of the decade.
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Rainfall data shows Uralla, like many rural communities, received more rain in the past few weeks than all of 2019, turning large areas of drought and bushfire-tinged areas green.
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Nature, a scientific journal, has dubbed our bushfire crisis "a wake-up call," and people are indeed now grappling with fundamental questions: What will the next 50 years look like?
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"We're protesting this Friday because we're outraged about our government's criminal negligence about the bushfire crisis, exacerbated by climate change," Uni Students for Climate Justice wrote on its Facebook page.
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Insurance Australia Group, insurer Suncorp Group and QBE Insurance Group also ended the week in black, as the industry's strong reinsurance programmes will mitigate impact of rising bushfire-related claims.
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Bear has found dozens of koalas in need and for research purposes so far this year, but is yet to find any since starting his bushfire deployment earlier this month.
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"The crew from Fire and Rescue NSW Station 509 Wyoming recorded this video showing the moment their truck was overrun by the bushfire burning South of Nowra," reads the tweet.
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The town is located about 273 kilometers (169 miles) northwest of Sydney and is only a short distance away from the Meads Creek West Bushfire currently burning in the region.
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Current estimates suggest eastern Australia&aposs bushfire crisis has scorched more than 14 million acres of land, killed about half a billion animals, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
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Under Australia's federation political system, state governments and fire services are responsible for managing bushfire threats, but Morrison said the unprecedented scale of the current crisis demanded a national response.
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People living close to an out-of-control fire near Port Stephens, a town about 180km (111.85 miles) north of Sydney, were told to put their bushfire survival plans into action.
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From a whimsical portrait of teenagers lounging in a messy bedroom to a bushfire raging through southeast Australia, the shortlisted and finalist images capture 2019 in its lightest and darkest moments.
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ABC Online reports that the Tasmanian fire service is gearing up for another month of bushfire operations, but it expects that remote areas could continue to burn for weeks to come.
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As well as human impacts, long-term bushfire effects include the loss of livestock and animal habitats, reduced soil fertility lasting decades and contamination of water catchments with ash and debris.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian firefighters battled more than 100 bushfires across two eastern states on Sunday as authorities warned that parts of the country could expected a severe bushfire season this summer.
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Recent Guardian polls have shown Prime Minister Scott Morrison's popularity has plummeted as a result of his handling of the bushfire crisis, with respondents thinking he's arrogant and out of touch.
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Bushfire smoke has affected a number of elite sporting competitions involving soccer, rugby league and cricket, and the pollution has raised safety fears at tennis's first Grand Slam of the year.
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Australia is offering travelers ages 18 to 30 the chance to work in the country for a full year on a Working Holiday Maker visa to help with bushfire recovery efforts.
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The model who went viral this week for inspiring people to donate to Australian bushfire relief in exchange for her nude photos now estimates she has raised more than $1 million.
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"The Aces for Bushfire Relief initiative gives the tennis community the opportunity to galvanise our sport to support and raise much needed funds to help those who are most in need."
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There have been nine confirmed casualties this bushfire season, which includes the death of a volunteer firefighter on Monday who was killed after his truck was blown over by strong winds.
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A stand of alpine trees was scorched by a bushfire in Tasmania's World Heritage Area, via Dan Broun"From my point of view, you've got all these events piling up," he said.
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Nowadays, however, I leave my pubes to grow out for so long that if I wear a skirt or a dress in high temperatures, I run the risk of starting a bushfire.
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They may one day deliver books and diapers to your front door, but for now, drones are being useful helping people rebuild after a traumatic start to the bushfire season in Australia.
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And now we've learned they also have one of the most impressive bushfire strategies we've ever heard – they just go to sleep, even if they end up a little less spiky afterwards.
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Economists expect the unemployment rate to tick higher as a horrendous bushfire season this summer together with the coronavirus outbreak dealt a blow to the country's A$2 trillion ($1.30 trillion) economy.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennis greats Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal pledged A$250,000 ($172,000) towards the Australian bushfire relief efforts at a charity event on Wednesday in the leadup to the Australian Open.
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Following are some highlights of what is happening in the bushfire crisis: * Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham was scheduled to meet with industry leaders on Thursday to discuss a response to the crisis.
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Qualifying was disrupted for a second successive day, firstly by bushfire smoke and later by a torrential rain storm which cleared the air but put an end to play at Melbourne Park.
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The three died when the C-130 water tanker plane they were flying crashed after being called to battle a bushfire near Cooma, a town in southeast New South Wales, on Thursday.
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The warning from the world's biggest miner underscores how an unusually long bushfire season that has scorched an area one-third the size of Germany is damaging the world's No. 14 economy.
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Jeremy Russell-Smith, a bushfire expert at Charles Darwin University, said this quashing of traditional fire techniques happened not only in Australia, but also in North and South America, Asia and Africa.
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Barber&aposs fundraiser for The Trustee for NSW Rural Fire Service & Brigades Donations Fund, to support bushfire relief efforts in Australia, has become the largest Facebook fundraiser globally, Facebook told Business Insider.
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Morrison has faced sustained political pressure over his handling of the bushfire crisis, including for taking a holiday to Hawaii last month, and his refusal to take tougher action on climate change.
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A video posted on social media site Facebook showed tourist Nicholas Costanzo escaping from the Victorian bushfire on a narrow two-way road dotted with fire trucks as thick smoke blurred vision.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has canceled official trips to India and Japan that were scheduled for the second half of January as he battles a bushfire emergency at home.
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Within these circles, the official narrative seems to be: What summer isn't complete in Australia without the scent of bushfire in the background—like a candle lit for an extra atmospheric touch?
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The poll was taken after Morrison announced a A$2 billion bushfire recovery fund and called out 22010,211 army reservists to back up state emergency workers - responses that were viewed as belated.
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"These systems drive wind from Australia&aposs dry and hot interior, which – along with the unusually bad bushfire conditions – creates the conditions we&aposre seeing with the smoke," Dr Dominey-Howes said.
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Lucas Sturrock is one of thousands of Australians that have been forced to flee their homes amid a devastating national bushfire crisis that has seen authorities struggle to contain hundreds of blazes.
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Some investigations show that many Australians believe the climate change is the reason of bushfire, Morrison, Australia prime minister doesn't think so, saying there is no conclusive evidence linking the two parts.
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This year, Australia posts more positive statements on emission reduction, so how will the bushfire influence its climate policy and energy industry is still not sure, but tourism will be definitely impacted.
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State authorities issued its first Code Red alert in a decade, signifying the worst possible bushfire conditions, warning that should a fire start it would be fast moving, unpredictable and probably uncontrollable.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia suspended parliament on Tuesday to honor the victims of a national bushfire crisis that has killed 33 people, as more than 100 fires remained ablaze across the country's east coast.
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And in that sense, his first bushfire was a success—as described at the start of this article—so he lit another a few weeks later, and then another not long after that.
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Australia's bushfire are a common and deadly threat but the early outbreak this year in the southern spring has already claimed several lives and destroyed more than 300 homes over the past week.
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This year's early bushfire season in the country is expected to be long and brutal as a three-year drought has left broad swathes of Australia's east and west more susceptible to fire.
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Both Sydney and Adelaide are smothered in smoke with residents advised to stay indoors, and a Code Red has been issued for parts of Victoria — the highest bushfire warning level in the state.
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Last week, a tennis player collapsed during a qualifying round at the Australian Open tournament in Melbourne due to inhaling bushfire smoke, although the competition has continued in more moderate weather this week.
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Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova said in a Twitter post she would donate $25,000 to bushfire relief, and Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic responded in a tweet, saying he would match the donation.
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"Me and my mom lol", Osaka posted, alongside a picture of her and Williams sat courtside at the Rod Laver Arena during a charity match to raise funds for the Australian bushfire appeal.
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NSW Health issued a statement saying air quality would be poor in parts of the state, including Sydney, due to a combination of bushfire smoke and dust blowing in from drought-hit areas.
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In Victoria, 3.5 percent of the state has been burned, with 200 homes destroyed, and last week, authorities in the state sent 250,000 texts to people in bushfire-affected areas asking them evacuate.
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The world is watching Australia burn, and while there's an enormous amount of generosity, concern, and goodwill in the face of this unprecedented bushfire season, an ugly underbelly of misinformation has emerged online.
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Here are some ways you can join us: If you have the ability, making a donation is one of the simplest ways that you can help with the ongoing bushfire crisis in Australia.
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Australia, which is suffering from several prolonged droughts in the north of the state, has had an early and severe start to its bushfire season this year with two fatalities recorded this week.
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Gammage pointed to an incident on Tuesday, when a local fire brigade managed to steer a bushfire around their community, despite being told their town was "undefendable," according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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He also promised earlier in the tournament to donate $10,000 to Australian bushfire relief after each of his victories, and the entire champion's check of about $2 million if he wins the title.
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The country is going through its worst bushfire season on record, with fires burning since September taking 28 lives, destroying more than 2,500 homes and razing forests and farmland the size of Bulgaria.
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After widespread domestic and global criticism for poor leadership during the bushfire crisis and his dismissive attitude towards climate change, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said adaptation to the country's environmental situation is key.
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If your property is not prepared for the bushfire season and you're not sure you are able or capable of defending your property if a fire approaches you need to leave straight away.
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The fires have destroyed more than 3.7 million hectares (9.1 million acres) across five states and at least six people have died in NSW and two in South Australia during the bushfire emergency.
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Air pollution in Bourke was at 15 times higher than recommended safe levels as strong winds whipped up both bushfire smoke and dust that has accumulated following three years of drought across Australia.
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Tendulkar, who also took part in Australia's bushfire charity game in February, contributed 21 million rupees each to his state government of Maharashtra and the Prime Minister's relief fund, the source told Reuters.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the establishment of a $2 billion National Bushfire Recovery Fund, which will assist in rebuilding efforts over the next two years following the current nightmare fire season.
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MELBOURNE, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Western Australia was lashed by destructive winds on Saturday as a tropical cyclone neared landfall while much of the bushfire-battered east coast faced flood warnings due to heavy rain.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Melbourne skies were largely clear of bushfire smoke on Thursday as Australian Open organizers defended their decision to continue playing qualifiers during two days when a thick haze enveloped the city.
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Australia has been battling its worst bushfire season on record, with fires burning for months killing 29 people, and destroying more than 2,500 homes while razing bushland across an area the size of Bulgaria.
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Following are some highlights of what is happening in the bushfire crisis: * There were 82 fires burning across New South Wales early Friday, 30 uncontained, and several fires in Victoria, according to fire authorities.
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In Melbourne, fears receded that smoke from the fires would disrupt the Australian Open which starts on Monday as the city and parts of the bushfire-ravaged state of Victoria braced for heavy rains.
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A hotter world means drier vegetation and bigger fires, and this season's fires are behaving in astonishing ways: Instead of a mild bushfire burning here and there, now the conflagrations are leveling entire ecosystems.
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"This unprecedented bushfire crisis is devastating people, properties, communities, livestock, and animals across the country and our hearts go out to all those affected," Australian Open Tournament Director Craig Tiley said in a statement.
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On Wednesday, CNN confirmed that Williams will join fellow tennis stars Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer in competing in the Australian Open Rally for Relief, a match that will raise money for bushfire relief.
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The medals were awarded by New South Wales Rural Fire Services Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons who lost his own father 20 years ago in a bushfire during a hazard-reduction burn, according to media reports.
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Story at a glance In the midst of its driest, hottest and raging bushfire season, Australia weather offered a glimmer of hope to the millions of acres of scorched earth and endangered wildlife: rain.
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Following are some highlights of what is happening in the bushfire crisis: * Rainfall continued in Queensland, with some areas receiving nearly a sixth of their annual average in a 24-hour period on Monday.
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Over the summer, Canberra has regularly been shrouded in bushfire smoke that has put its air quality among the lowest ranked in the world and prompted government agencies to ask employees to stay home.
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The air quality in Melbourne, where the Australian Open is held, is currently some of the worst in the world, thanks to an intense bushfire season that's burned millions of acres across the country.
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Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Naomi Osaka and Caroline Wozniacki are among the several tennis stars who have agreed to play in a charity match next week to raise funds for bushfire relief.
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Swiss player Belinda Bencic last week pledged a donation to the bushfire appeal for every double fault at the Australian Open and suggested Zverev did the same after his problems at the ATP Cup.
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A change in wind direction thinned the blanket of bushfire smoke over The Australian Golf Club that over the first two days of the tournament had players battling visibility problems, stinging eyes and coughs.
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Many Australians live in bushfire-prone regional areas and know all too well what it&aposs like to deal with not only smoke but also the inclement threat of loss of life and property.
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Morrison's conservative Liberal-National coalition government has been under sustained pressure to defend its climate change policies as it has downplayed links to the unprecedented early arrival and severity of this year's bushfire season.
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These are the letters sent by former NSW Fires Chief Greg Mullins and 22 other former emergency chiefs to the Prime Minister in April and September predicting a bushfire crisis and requesting a meeting.
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Morrison's conservative Liberal-National coalition government has come under sustained pressure to defend its climate change policies as it has downplayed links to the unprecedented early arrival and severity of this year's bushfire season.
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Parliament will sit on Tuesday for the first time in three months and Morrison is expected to be grilled by opposition Labor over his response to the bushfire crisis and a scandal over sports funding.
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Conditions on Tuesday in the greater Hunter region north of Sydney were also rated as catastrophic, the highest level of bushfire danger, while extreme or severe conditions were predicted for other parts of the state.
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The profit announcement on Thursday shows the country's biggest upscale department store chain putting a gloss on trading conditions for a sector still reeling from a damaging bushfire season, the arrival of online giant Amazon.
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Harrowing video posted to Twitter shows Royal Australian Air Force pilots navigating through a thick haze of orange smoke that prevented them from completing rescue missions in the bushfire-plagued towns of Mallacoota and Merimbula.
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Consumer sentiment surveys pointed to deepening pessimism in January as households fretted about the economic impact of a prolonged and devastating bushfire season that has so far killed 33 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Fears of disruption to the Australian Open from bushfire smoke receded on Saturday but some players were clearly concerned about the conditions their colleagues were forced to play in earlier in the week.
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Organizers have been criticized by players and the media for ploughing ahead with qualifying this week despite authorities warning residents to stay indoors and restrict physical activity as air quality plunged due to bushfire smoke.
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Barty has earned plaudits for her level-headed attitude throughout her meteoric rise to the top and she illustrated it once again when asked whether an Australian champion would be fitting after the bushfire crisis.
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Tournament officials have indicated that if the bushfire smoke continues to be an issue, they have the capacity to stage the event by closing the roofs on their three main stadiums and filtering the air.
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Australia now has similar national building codes to cut fire risk, and it is older homes that see the highest losses, said Richard Thornton, head of the country's Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Center.
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One such conservationist is James Fitzgerald, whose wildlife sanctuary Two Thumbs Wildlife Trust was destroyed this past January in a bushfire, along with Fitzgerald's home and the protected habitats of koalas, kangaroos, and other wildlife.
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He tweeted a story from the conservative Australian that misleadingly said 180 people had been arrested on arson charges, though they were from bushfire-related charges and only 24 were charged with deliberately lighting fires.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian officials warned communities in bushfire-ravaged eastern states to strengthen fire defense on Tuesday amid forecasts of soaring temperatures and strong winds, as one approaching blaze cloaked the capital in thick smoke.
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The German has pledged A$10,000 for every match he wins and his entire A$4.12 million ($2.82 million) first prize money to bushfire relief if he goes on to lift the trophy on Sunday.
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As well as lower prices for thermal coal, used to generate electricity, Whitehaven's earnings were dented by labour shortages, dust from drought and bushfire smoke that hit production at its major New South Wales mine.
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For example, Amazon's $690,000 donation to Australian bushfire relief efforts left little room for discussing the company's relationship with Woodside Petroleum, Australia's largest oil and gas company, and its role in accelerating Australia's climate disaster.
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Rupert Murdoch&aposs son and daughter-in-law issued a sharp condemnation of Murdoch-owned publications, telling The Daily Beast they were disappointed in the climate-change denialism amid the deadly bushfire crisis in Australia.
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Videos show Prime Minister Scott Morrison being heckled and hounded out of a bushfire-ravaged town by angry locals in southeastern Australia, as deadly flames continue to spread and the death toll continues to mount.
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There is a prevailing mood of grief and desperation—a sadness at what has been lost, and a fury at the alleged failure of state and federal governments to adequately address the ongoing bushfire catastrophe.
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"The number of job ads declined by more than we would expect for that time of the year, suggesting that the escalating bushfire crises had an impact," said Catherine Birch, a senior economist at ANZ.
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The poll was taken after Morrison announced a A$2 billion ($22010 billion) bushfire recovery fund and called out 211,20.2 army reservists to back up state emergency workers - responses that were viewed as too slow.
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Australian officials declared a state of emergency for the capital city of Canberra and surrounding regions on Friday, as soaring temperatures and strong winds threatened to propel a large bushfire beyond the control of firefighters.
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Speaking to Mashable via email, Port Macquarie Koala Hospital's Sue Ashton said the hospital has treated 32 koalas for bushfire-related injuries since the fires began, but believes many more have died without receiving care.
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At least four people have died and more than 680 homes have been destroyed across eastern Australia in these wildfires since the start of November, earlier than the usual start of the summer bushfire season.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Residents of two small communities in the southern Australian state of Victoria were told to evacuate on Saturday, as a bushfire burned out of control nearby and as temperatures were set to rise.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Christmas tree made from charred branches and other bushfire debris has been put up in Sydney's central business district in a poignant reminder of deadly wildfires that have ravaged much of Australia.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Travis Head says he is confident match officials would not put the health of players at risk if hazardous bushfire smoke impacted the third test against New Zealand in Sydney this week.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura opened a new round of peace talks on Wednesday seeking renewed pledges to uphold a truce he said had been shaken by serious incidents but "not a bushfire".
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A founding member of popular Australian children's music group The Wiggles was recovering in a Sydney hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest while performing at a bushfire relief concert on Friday, the band said.
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TA, meanwhile, said in a statement on Thursday that a fundraising 'Rally for Relief' event held under the roof on Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday, had raised more than A$4.8 million for bushfire relief funds.
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"The American singer Lizzo came to visit us at FoodBank today to say thanks for helping our bushfire effected communities," he tweeted along with two pictures of Lizzo donning a high-vis jacket ready to help.
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But economic risks have intensified as the country suffered one of its worst bushfire seasons on record this summer and is now grappling with the hit to its important tourism and education sectors from the coronavirus.
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AX) said on Thursday it has received since September 2720,2200 bushfire-related claims worth up to A$345 million ($237.05 million), of which nearly a third was recorded in the first few days of the month.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Romanian women's world No. 4 Simona Halep has devised a unique way to support relief and recovery efforts amid Australia's bushfire catastrophe: she will donate money every time she yells at her Australian coach.
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Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said last week he was donating $500,000 towards wildlife rescue efforts, and cricket great Shane Warne's "baggy green" cap raised more than A$1 million for the bushfire relief efforts.
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The current bushfire crisis has mostly been contained to the east coast of NSW and Queensland states, but officials in South Australia warned on Tuesday that forecast near-record temperatures raises the risks in that state.
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Morrison on Saturday said while there was "no argument" about the links "between broader issues of global climate change and weather events around the world," he dismissed suggestions that climate change contributed to any single bushfire.
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"I had the little spotlight that you use to look at things and it went through the smoke and we all realized that in this birth suite, this baby was born into bushfire smoke," he said.
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As the sun set on the western tip of Australia this Friday, a week-long bushfire near the city of Perth had destroyed nearly 26 homes and razed an estimated 22016,23 acres of land, according to Reuters.
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As the sun set on the western tip of Australia this Friday, a week-long bushfire near the city of Perth had destroyed nearly 21910 homes and razed an estimated 20.65,000 acres of land, according to Reuters.
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Australia is experiencing one of its worst bushfire seasons on record, with fires burning since September and claiming the lives of 28 people, destroying more than 2,500 homes and razing forests and farmland the size of Bulgaria.
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The Australian Open tennis tournament was scheduled to begin in Melbourne on Monday with organisers saying they would monitor air quality after a player collapsed on court and quit a qualifying match due to bushfire smoke inhalation.
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Here are key events in the bushfire crisis: *Early on Monday, 80 fires were burning across New South Wales, none above the lowest warning level, and there were 33 emergency warnings in Victoria, including one flood warning.
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Williams announced that she will donate the $43,000 of prize money from her win to Australian bushfire relief, joining the likes of athletes, celebrities and CEOs who have pledged to donate to relief funds of the disaster.
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"We don't want to waste the opportunity to take on board any recommendations we need to adopt ahead of the bushfire season this year ... as we approach summer of 2021," said Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of NSW.
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Morrison said Australia should adapt to changing weather patterns that would make bushfires more frequent, but "when it comes to practical safety of people living in bushfire zones, hazard reduction is even more important than emissions reduction".
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In late December, Morrison apologized for going on vacation in Hawaii with his family amid the bushfire crisis, saying that with the "benefit of hindsight we would have made different decisions," according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian sports stars, sparked in part by a call to action from tennis player Nick Kyrgios, have rallied to raise funds in support of relief and recovery efforts for victims of the country's bushfire catastrophe.
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It will really depend on the extent to which there are periods of severe bushfire weather—high temperatures, low humidity, and high wind speeds blowing in particular directions—over the next four to six or eight weeks.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Australian billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest has pledged 2100 million Australian dollars ($268.7 million) in aid for the country's bushfire crisis, joining a growing list of celebrities chipping in to fight the fires.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said he was inclined to cancel an official trip to India planned for this month in order to deal with a bushfire crisis ravaging parts of his country.
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A new blaze ignited outside the Australian capital, Canberra, on Monday, and has now grown into an "out of control" bushfire some 23,400 acres (9,500 hectares) in size, according to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Emergency Services Agency.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An unlikely hero of his country's bushfire relief efforts, Nick Kyrgios enters the Australian Open on a rare surge of goodwill from a sports-loving public long infuriated by his failure to convert talent into trophies.
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READ: Bushfire survivors describe what it's like fighting flames from their doorstep While the New South Wales fire service has a handful of its own planes, the vast majority of its aerial efforts are conducted with chartered aircraft.
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The 21-year-old Williams, who said she would donate all her prize money to Australian bushfire relief funds, and good friend Caroline Wozniacki were beaten by American duo Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend 6-4 6-4.
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The protesters have five key demands: relief and aid for bushfire-affected communities, money for firefighters, land and water sovereignty for indigenous people, an urgent transition to renewable energy, as well as a transition for fossil fuel workers.
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Nearly half a billion animals have been killed in Australia's devastating bushfiresStunning images from space reveal the shocking extent of Australia's bushfire crisisI spent New Year's trapped by Australian bushfires that looked like a scene from a warzone
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On some privately held land near the bushfire hit town of Nowra, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of Sydney, areas where traditional burning had been used were greener and less affected by the bushfires, according to Morris.
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"But Dr Dominey-Howes says the smoke over Sydney has been caused by a combination of these exacerbated bushfire conditions and two atmospheric systems which are "coming together and driving winds from the interior towards the east coast.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A tropical cyclone expected to hit Western Australia on Saturday was forecast to bring ferocious winds and a potentially dangerous storm tide, while much of the bushfire-battered east coast faced flood warnings due to torrential rains.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A tropical cyclone expected to hit Western Australia on Saturday was forecast to bring ferocious winds and a potentially dangerous storm tide, while much of the bushfire-battered east coast faced flood warnings due to torrential rains.
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"I have people who are both involved as persons who need to be moved from areas and office buildings that are potentially in danger, and also those persons who are part of the (Operation) Bushfire Assist effort," he said.
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"Against a background of significant unrest in the Middle East and the aftermath of the ongoing bushfire disaster at home, the market is hoisting up the white flag today," James McGlew, executive director of corporate stockbroking at Argonaut said.
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He's a huge animal lover and has been making clay characters for a while, so together we thought up the clay koala and offered it to friends and family as a "thank you" for donations for bushfire-affected animals.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A player collapsed in a coughing fit and retired from Australian Open qualifying on Tuesday as organizers faced a storm of criticism for plowing ahead with matches despite bushfire smoke plunging Melbourne's air quality to "hazardous" levels.
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The bushfire crisis has put pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison as critics say he has not done enough to address the impact of climate change, which meteorologists have said was extending the length of the fire weather season.
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Belinda Bencic, who has pledged to donate $43 for bushfire relief efforts with each double fault she serves at the Australian Open, said she could easily had more than the four in her win over Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Holidaymakers trapped by bushfire had to be rescued by boat from a national park south of Australia's largest city of Sydney and 200 people were evacuated by firefighters as a heatwave struck the eastern seaboard on Saturday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bushfire conditions eased in Australia on Saturday after a grueling night for firefighters, with authorities saying they expect at least a week of milder weather in which to step up defenses against the huge blazes still burning.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former Australian cricketing greats Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne will temporarily come out of retirement to play in a charity Twenty20 match next month as sports organizations and athletes seek ways to raise funds for bushfire relief.
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Although he gave no details, the plan showed the conservative leader moving to head off criticism he was too slow to act when the seriousness of the country's worst bushfire season in a generation became apparent late last year.
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After Kyrgios' announcement received a warm response on social media, the ATP pledged $100 for each ace served across the 10-day tournament in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney to the Australian Red Cross bushfire disaster relief and recovery efforts.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Action at the Australian Open will be confined to the three stadiums with retractable roofs and eight indoor courts if conditions become hazardous due to the bushfire crisis, organizers of the Grand Slam event said on Tuesday.
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The bushfire emergency that began in Australia in September 23.9 and has worsened steadily since then has already cost at least 220 lives, destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings and burned millions of acres of forest and farmland.
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Ahead of the tournament, Shapovalov had castigated organizers for allowing qualifying to go ahead as players struggled amid thick bushfire smoke over Melbourne Park, and said he would decline to play if he felt his health was under threat.
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The money, which is in addition to the funds raised by Tennis Australia's Aces for Bushfire Relief campaign, will be donated to the Australian Red Cross which has helped thousands in evacuation centres and aided volunteers and relief workers.
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Droughts that last for five or six or even 10 years are common; cyclonic rains regularly bring floods to the northern part of the continent; every summer sees the inhabitants of the southern and coastal forests on bushfire alert.
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SYDNEY, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said he was inclined to cancel an official trip to India planned for this month in order to deal with a bushfire crisis ravaging parts of his country.
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"We've had a little bit of adversity the whole season and the coronavirus is no exception," said Brumbies flanker Tom Cusack, whose team had to move pre-season training camps because of the bushfire emergency in Australia earlier this year.
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SYDNEY, March 13 (Reuters) - Australian job advertisements rose for a second consecutive month in February after a sharp decline in December though a prolonged bushfire season and a rapidly spreading virus are seen likely to hurt labour demand in coming months.
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Cats are attracted to bushfire scars (one study found a feral cat journeying 19 miles to one), and when these brilliant hunters find their vulnerable victims they kill with merciless impunity—sometimes not even bothering to eat the carcass afterward.
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So too has the so-called "arson emergency," which was featured in articles published in right-wing publications like the Murdoch-owned newspaper The Australian that falsely stated 183 arsonists had been arrested since the start of the bushfire season.
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Australian citizens and wildlife are suffering, and if you're not a firefighter or some other type of emergency personnel, the best thing you can do at the moment is simply give whatever money you can to an Australian bushfire relief fund.
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After the disastrous Black Saturday fires of 2009, which killed 173 people, the country developed a more sophisticated, national warning protocol, which the chief executive of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Center in Melbourne believes has saved lives.
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Together with the build-up of fuel – five years ago, bushfire expert David Packham warned that forest fuel levels had climbed to their most dangerous in thousands of years – this led to Australia experiencing its worst fires in 2628 years.
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Department stores across the city have sold all their purifiers, while hardware stores have sold out of filter masks that offer protection from the ultra-fine bushfire particles in the air that lodge in the lungs and make breathing difficult.
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Now, after a devastating bushfire season that scorched approximately 13 million acres of land and left more than a billion animals in Australia dead, researchers and conservationists are continuing the search for survivors in hopes of rehabilitating the affected wildlife.
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Zverev would, however, not take home any money if he lifts the trophy on Sunday as the German has pledged A$10,000 for every match he wins and his entire A$4.12 million ($2.82 million) first prize money to bushfire relief.
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Morrison said he wanted to set up a "legal framework that would allow the Commonwealth to declare a national state of emergency" before the next summer bushfire season, adding the chain of command between states and the federal government remained unclear.
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Some of the world's top tennis stars, including Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer, are coming together on January 15 in Melbourne, Australia to take part in an exhibition match to raise money for Australia's bushfire relief efforts, CNN reported.
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Wildfire has killed at least four people and destroyed more than 680 homes across eastern Australia since the start of November, months earlier than the usual summer bushfire season, with the authorities blaming an extended drought, strong wind and suspected arson.
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A firefighter in Australia filmed the shocking moment Thursday as his crew battled a raging bushfire on the doorstep of the country's biggest city -- one of over 100 blazes that is burning across the southeastern state of New South Wales (NSW).
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Though we can likely expect a worsening of Australian bushfire conditions in future thanks to the effects of human-caused climate change, the smoke blanketing Sydney for the past two weeks may not be the new normal – for now, at least.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Calls for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to resign have littered social media platforms after it was revealed he was holidaying in Hawaii while the country battled a bushfire emergency and his return has failed to douse the criticism.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday front parliament for the first time in three months as he seeks to repair his standing with voters angry by his response to the country's bushfire crisis and a scandal over sports funding.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A bushfire destroyed nearly 100 homes in western Australia as it swept through countryside south of Perth, but there were no casualties reported after emergency officials and local media said on Friday that three missing people had been found safe.
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A fierce early start to the bushfire season brought a blaze at the Lake Innes Nature Reserve that destroyed two-thirds of the koalas' habitat last month, leaving the rest under threat from one of 15 major blazes in the southeastern state.
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Steve Irwin&aposs family announces it has saved 90,000 animals in Australia, and says admissions are surging as bushfires rage onTerrifying video shows Australian air force pilots flying through a haze of orange smoke that prevented them from completing a bushfire rescue mission
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For a tournament that has been thrown into some doubt by bushfire smoke in the leadup, a record-extending eighth Grand Slam title for the defending champion Serbian would hardly be a breath of fresh air for many fans at Melbourne Park.
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Since kept secret to protect them from contamination, their location has been devastated during a bushfire season that has razed about 11 million hectares (27 million acres) across the country's southeast - an area roughly a third the size of Germany - since September.
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The Australian company, which also operates in South America and Europe, flagged that it would suffer a significant drop in sales back home due to "extreme climatic conditions" at a time where the country is dealing with its worst bushfire season on record.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - When Simona Halep pledged to donate A$200 ($137) to bushfire relief every time she gave her coach a hard time during her matches in Australia this month, she was ready for the final total to be a hefty sum.
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" More recently, the Australian government's Bushfire & Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Center warned last August that the 2019-2020 fire season "has the potential to be an active season across Australia, following on from a very warm and dry start to the year.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian cricketer Shane Warne's prized "baggy green" cap raised more than A$2500 million ($5003,2500) on Friday for bushfire relief efforts, with the new owners planning to use it to raise more funds before it is donated to a museum.
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"The response to the bushfire situation has been unprecedented with thousands of volunteer and paid responders working around the clock, day and night, week after week to protect property and save lives," he said, acknowledging some firefighters were battling blazes on Australia Day.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The remains of an elderly couple have been found in a burned-out home in rural New South Wales state, police said on Thursday, as Australia comes to grips with an earlier and more severe start to its bushfire season.
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Blazes in New South Wales have ravaged more than 80,000 hectares (198,000 acres) of land this week alone, and state fire service officials said they were monitoring about 25 fires ahead of what is shaping up to be a long bushfire season.
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He added that defense force bases would provide temporary accommodation, defense helicopters and planes would help with logistic support and evacuations, and A$20 million ($14 million) would be spent to lease four fire-fighting planes to deal with the bushfire crisis.
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Blazes in New South Wales (NSW) state have ravaged more than 80,000 hectares (198,000 acres) of land this week alone, and state fire service officials said they were monitoring about 25 fires ahead of what's shaping up to be a long bushfire season.
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"For every koala we've lost, we maybe lost 10 or 15 wombats, that's the number we're not seeing," the head of volunteer group Wombat Care Bundanoon told Reuters in Wingello, a bushfire-ravaged village about 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Sydney.
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We have to plan for our ecology team to go out to site to do species surveys, but we can't send them on days that are smoky or have a high bushfire risk, which doesn't leave us with that many available days.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A couple of amateur college students from Asia outshone a handful of major winners in the opening round of the Australian Open on Thursday but the main talking point was the blanket of bushfire smoke that shrouded the golf course.
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A Go Fund Me page for the hospital that was set up in October to provide koalas in bushfire hit areas with drinking stations has been popular with Christmas shoppers, raising A$2.1 million ($1.45 million), from an initial target of A$25,000.
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Morrison, who has been under sustained attack since he went on vacation to Hawaii as the crisis escalated, blamed a "breakdown in communications" for a state fire chief's complaint he was blindsided by Morrison's plan to set up a national bushfire recovery agency.
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"It is clear that confronting the bushfire disaster in Australia requires both an immediate response and an ongoing investment in rebuilding the lives and livelihoods of those most affected by the fires across the country," Rupert Murdoch said in a statement announcing the donation.
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Our first photo story comes to us from Canberra, Australia, where researchers and conservationists are continuing the search for animal survivors following a devastating bushfire season that scorched approximately 13 million acres of land and left more than a billion animals in Australia dead.
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Celeste Barber&aposs Australian bushfire fundraiser on Facebook is officially the largest in the platform&aposs history, raising over $28.5 millionYou should probably stop sharing these misleading viral &aposmaps&apos of the Australian bushfiresMore than a billion animals are feared dead in Australia&aposs bushfires
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Lizzo took time out from her Australian tour to pack food hampers in Melbourne for bushfire victimsYou should probably stop sharing these misleading viral &aposmaps&apos of the Australian bushfiresHeartbreaking photos show animals impacted by Australia&aposs bushfiresAustralia&aposs bushfires are ravaging the country.
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SYDNEY, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Bushfire conditions on Australia's east coast eased on Saturday after a tough night for firefighters and authorities said they expect to have at least a week of milder weather where they can improve defences against the huge blazes still burning.
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Celebrities and other well-known figures throughout the world have been calling on the public to join them in helping Australians, while Celeste Barber&aposs Facebook bushfire fundraiser is officially the largest in the platform&aposs history, raising over $28.5 million in just four days.
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"We're putting more Defense Force boots on the ground, more planes in the sky, more ships to sea, and more trucks to roll in to support the bushfire fighting effort and recovery as part of our co-ordinated response to these terrible #bushfires," Morrison tweeted.
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We're putting more Defence Force boots on the ground, more planes in the sky, more ships to sea, and more trucks to roll in to support the bushfire fighting effort and recovery as part of our co-ordinated response to these terrible #bushfires pic.twitter.
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"The fact is that fires need multiple factors to line up like planets — ignition, fuel and conditions," says Dr. Paul Read, an ecological criminologist and sustainability scientist from Melbourne's Monash university, and co-director of Australia's National Centre for Research in Bushfire and Arson.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A giant bushfire on the edge of Sydney, which has blanketed the city in smoke causing a spike in respiratory illnesses and the cancellation of outdoor sports, will take weeks to control but will not be extinguished without heavy rains, firefighters said.
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Read more:You&aposre not welcome, you f-----&apos: Videos show Australia&aposs prime minister heckled and hounded out of a bushfire-ravaged town by furious localsFood and fuel are running out in parts of Australia as raging bushfires push it toward a humanitarian crisis.
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A kangaroo with burns lies in the Central Plateau Broun said it's the first time he has walked through an alpine region affected by bushfires, with his only other experience of bushfire damage being in the scorched, coastal heathland of Western Australia, where he grew up.
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GRAPHIC: How smoke from Australia's bushfires has spread - here Following are some highlights of what is happening in the bushfire crisis: ** About 80% of the Greater Blue Mountains that are on the World Heritage List of protected designations have been lost to the bushfires, Australian media reported.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Some residents of Australia's capital Canberra were evacuated briefly on Wednesday after a bushfire broke out near the airport as searing hot weather ended a few days of respite and the number of out-of-control blazes surged in the southeast of the country.
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Read more about Australia&aposs fires:&aposYou&aposre not welcome, you f-----&apos: Videos show Australia&aposs prime minister heckled and hounded out of a bushfire-ravaged town by furious localsAustralia&aposs fires have burned more than twice as much land as the summer&aposs Amazon blazes.
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Crowe was not the only actor to make reference to the bushfire disaster sweeping Australia, which has currently destroyed more than 1,000 homes, killed more than 20 people, wiped out hundreds of millions of animals, and released hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
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Read more:Lizzo took time out from her Australian tour to pack food hampers in Melbourne for bushfire victimsYou should probably stop sharing these misleading viral &aposmaps&apos of the Australian bushfiresHeartbreaking photos show animals impacted by Australia&aposs bushfires3 graphics reveal the unimaginable scale of Australia&aposs fires
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"I had a feeling he was going to do some big things this Australian Open the way he was playing ..." Australian former world number 17 Bernard Tomic slumped out of the first round of qualifying at Melbourne Park this week complaining of breathing difficulties in the bushfire smoke.
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Climate change is on everybody&aposs mind as Australia&aposs bushfire seasons grow more intense, but the acrid haze over Sydney is not just thanks to a changing climate – it&aposs also driven in part by a pair of atmospheric events which are also responsible for the drought.
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Read more:Here are 8 ways you can donate money to Australia&aposs bushfire relief effortAustralian babies are being born in smoke-filled hospitals as hundreds of bushfires burn across the countryI fled the bushfires in Australia, spent New Year&aposs Eve in an emergency shelter, and photographed the whole thing.
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The celebration after her Auckland Classic victory was not as effusive as some of her previous 72 title wins, and the $43,63 winner's cheque, which she donated to Australia bushfire relief efforts, was a drop in the ocean for someone who has won almost $93 million in career prize-money.
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The mercurial Kyrgios has pledged a A$200 ($140) donation for every ace he serves during Australia's summer of tennis in support of relief and recovery efforts for victims of the country's bushfire catastrophe and he contributed handsomely to the cause by smashing 20 of them against his German opponent.
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"When it comes to reducing global emissions, Australia must and is doing its bit, but bushfires are a time when communities must unite, not divide," Taylor said in emailed comments to Reuters on Tuesday, while he was busy at bushfire relief centers in his constituency in New South Wales state.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Alexander Zverev reached the second round of the Australian Open with a 6-4 7-6 (23) 6-3 victory over Marco Cecchinato on Tuesday and promptly pledged to donate his prize money to the bushfire appeal if he lands a maiden Grand Slam title at Melbourne Park.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Nick Kyrgios, bad boy of the tennis court turned hero of the bushfire relief appeal, put on a vintage show for a packed Melbourne Arena on Tuesday with a 6-2 7-6(3) 7-6(1) victory over Lorenzo Sonego in the first round of the Australian Open.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge will auction her Golden Globes suit to raise money for Australian bushfire reliefMargot Robbie posted an emotional video about the Australian bushfires ahead of the Golden GlobesSteve Irwin&aposs family announces it has saved 90,000 animals in Australia, and says admissions are surging as bushfires rage on
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"Police are aware of a number of posts circulating in relation to the current bushfire situation, however currently there is no intelligence to indicate that the fires in East Gippsland and north-east Victoria have been caused by arson or any other suspicious behaviour," a police spokeswoman told The Age on Thursday.
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After months of raging bushfires that have ravaged more than 10.3 million hectares (1403 million acres) of land, an area roughly the size of South Korea, Morrison in early January announced a A$2 billion ($1.4 billion) bushfire recovery fund and called out 3,22010 army reservists to back up state emergency workers.
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"The wildfires decimating Australia, killing people, ravaging wild habitats and pushing communities and firefighters to their absolute limits are growing and coalescing into the country's worst peacetime catastrophe precisely because of climate change," said Paul Read, a co-director of the National Center for Research in Bushfire and Arson at Monash University in Melbourne.
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Here are today's key events in the bushfire crisis: * Temperatures eased and winds died down in New South Wales on Friday, with a high of 29 degrees Celsius (84.2 degrees Fahrenheit) for Canberra, where a fire burning on the eastern side of the capital forced the airport to shut for a few hours on Thursday.
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READ: Amazon's donation to Australia's bushfire recovery Is insulting Bezos' own security team said in early 2019 they were confident that the Saudi government had access to Bezos' phone and the Kingdom was behind the leaking of sensitive personal text messages and pictures related to Bezos' extramarital affair, which were subsequently published by the National Inquirer.
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Kyrgios has proved divisive himself due to his on-court antics, but has earned praise in recent weeks for kickstarting the Tennis Australia bushfire relief appeal which has raised more than A$5.6 million ($3.8 million) There was a more recent tragedy on his mind on Monday and he sported an LA Lakers shirt in the warm-up.
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Read more:Nick Kyrgios will donate $200 for every ace he serves this summer to the victims of Australia&aposs bushfire crisisThe 11 most ridiculous things tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios has ever said or doneNick Kyrgios said he lost concentration during a loss at the Laver Cup because he saw &aposa really hot chick in the crowd&apos
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"What appears to have happened is that Australia's bushfire crisis—like other crises, including the burning of the Amazon rainforest in 2019—has been sucked into multiple overlapping fringe right-wing and conspiracy narratives which are generating and amplifying disinformation in support of their own political and ideological positions," wrote Elise Thomas, a researcher at Australia's Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber Policy Centre.
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Fire experts have been telling the Australian government for years, but with increasing urgency in 2019, that even assuming the same frequency and origins of fires as a normal bushfire season — from dry lightning to accidental sparks from power tools to, yes, arson — this season was going to be worse because the conditions were a perfect storm of fire-friendly factors.
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It's not a straightforward question to answer because it will vary so much from place to place depending on the soil moisture and the types of fuel—whether it's grassy fuels, or litter fuels, or coarse, larger, woody fuels—but you'd be looking for soaking rainfall that markedly increases soil moisture and bushfire fuel moisture, to really dampen these fires down.
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"But if this is what it's like now, we really are concerned that over the next few months we're going to get no respite from these sorts of bushfire conditions," he told Australian Broadcasting Corp TV. As of Monday, five properties had been confirmed destroyed, with five damaged in New South Wales (NSW), while more than 200 homes fires were saved from the flames, the NSW Rural Fire Service said.
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"But if this is what it's like now, we really are concerned that over the next few months we're going to get no respite from these sorts of bushfire conditions," he told Australian Broadcasting Corp TV. As of Monday, five properties had been confirmed destroyed, with five damaged in New South Wales (NSW), while more than 200 homes fires were saved from the flames, the NSW Rural Fire Service said.
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Read more:THEN AND NOW: How celebrities&apos red-carpet fashion has changed since their very first Golden GlobesPhoebe Waller-Bridge will auction her Golden Globes suit to raise money for Australian bushfire reliefSarah Hyland literally bowed down to &aposJoker&apos star Joaquin Phoenix at a Golden Globes after-partyJoaquin Phoenix didn&apost walk the Golden Globes red carpet with fiancée Rooney Mara so he could sweetly admire her instead
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