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Tasmania bushfires leave World Heritage Area devastated in pictures
2016-02-02 01:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Pictures from Tasmanias central plateau, shot by wilderness photographer Dan Broun, show the extraordinary damage wrought by more than a week of bushfires following lightning strikes in Australias southernmost state on 13 January. The world heritage area was home to a range of unique alpine flora including pencil pines, king billy pines and cushion plants, some more than 1,000 years old. Now more than 10,000ha of land has been incinerated, and ecologist say that, unlike eucalyptus trees, the ancient...
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Australia bushfires raze ancient World Heritage-listed forests
2016-01-29 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World Heritage-listed forests whose origins pre-date the age of the dinosaurs are being destroyed by raging Australian bushfires, with conservationists increasingly fearful they could be lost forever. Firefighters in Tasmania -- a state south of the mainland known for its cooler temperatures -- have been battling bushfires for 18 days, with 95,000 hectares (234,750 acres) of land burnt so far, authorities said Friday. While no properties have been destroyed and no one hurt in the infernos --...
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Australia counts cost of Christmas bushfires, flames rage on
2015-12-26 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters struggled on Saturday to contain out of control bushfires that have destroyed dozens of homes in one of Australia's leading tourist areas, and emergency services warned of dangerous conditions and more fires to come in the New Year. Emergency officials in Victoria state said rain overnight helped slow the path of fires that destroyed at least 53 homes on Friday along the picturesque Great Ocean Road, and forced residents to abandon Christmas celebrations to flee for their lives. Although...
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Australians flee bushfires at famous beauty spot
2015-12-25 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fire crews battled into the night on Friday after raging bushfires reduced homes to ashes in a famous Australian beauty spot on Christmas Day, sending residents fleeing for their lives to the sound of blaring sirens. Water bombing aircraft made a minimal impact on the fires, which set entire trees and hillsides alight in communities along the Great Ocean Road, officials said. Evacuation sirens sounded in towns along the road, a major tourist attraction southwest of Melbourne, as the normally...
The 'world-first' plan to prevent bushfires
2015-11-23 21:31:25| Jewelry - Topix.net
AN eastern suburbs council has spent almost $75,000 on legal fees against a tree pruner it says damaged a tree - the tree man's spent $30,000 defending himself: The tree's now gone and the case dropped. A 19-YEAR-OLD man on the Gold Coast has suffered severe burns after being doused in petrol and set alight.
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