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Australian firefighters battle worst bushfire decades
2015-01-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Dozens of homes were feared lost as an intense bushfire affecting thousands of acres raged out of control in South Australia Saturday, forcing residents to flee their homes and leaving 2,000 firefighters struggling to contain the worst blaze the region has seen in decades. The fires at Sampson Flat, located northeast of the state capital Adelaide in the country's south, was spreading rapidly in all directions, sweeping from a 380-acre area on Friday afternoon to nearly 12,000 acres on Saturday....
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Australia: Australia prepares for 'dangerous' bushfire season
2014-10-20 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: As Australia prepares for another horror bushfire season, experts are warning that some areas of the country are becoming uninhabitable because of the increased risk of fire and that worse-than-normal seasons are becoming the norm. And one of the country's top firefighters has warned that the loss of homes was now inescapable as climate change drives more frequent and fiercer blazes. Hot, dry conditions in the lead up to summer have increased the likelihood of "very high fire danger weather"...
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Australia: 'Abnormally early' bushfire season prompts call for more resources
2014-08-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: South-east Australia is set for an abnormally early bushfire season, with firefighters calling for substantially more resources to tackle fires that are predicted to become fiercer and last longer in the years ahead. The New South Wales rural fire service has said the danger period for bushfires, which normally begins on 1 October in most areas of the state, has already begun statewide, and is urging residents to reduce fire risks around their houses. The RFS dealt with more than 90 bush...
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Australia forecasts hotter climate, longer bushfire season
2014-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Climate change has been blamed to play a crucial role in the summer's heat wave. The Australian report released on March 4 suggested the country will experience a longer bushfire season caused by the continual rising of greenhouse gases. This means a hotter weather with increased risks of extreme fire in bushlands. Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released a study supporting the impact of climate change recently affecting...
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Australian Bushfire Has Grown to Size of Melbourne, NASA Image Shows
2014-02-13 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A fire rivaling the size of the city of Melbourne is raging in southeastern Australia, as a NASA satellite image taken at night earlier this week shows. The Snowy River Complex Fire, which is burning mountain forests near a remote national park, is one of three bushfires that flared up last weekend. Fueled by strong winds combined with a heat wave and prolonged dry conditions, the three fires have consumed more than 180,000 hectares (695 square miles), about 100,000 (390 square miles) of which burned...
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