Tag: #Bushfire
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Misinformation fears after Facebook blacks out news in Australia
Facebook’s news blackout in Australia has raised fears misinformation could come to dominate the platform in the country
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Australian firefighters manage to contain bushfire burning near Perth
Sydney, Feb 6 (AFP/APP): Australian firefighters have managed to contain a bushfire burning near Perth, authorities said Saturday, allowing them to downgrade the blaze which has destroyed 86 homes. Despite another night battling the fire amid strong winds on the fringes of Australia’s fourth-biggest city, crews managed to hold the blaze back and reduced the emergency warning…
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Wildfire erupts in California canyons, residents flee
Washington: Wildfire breaks out again in the United States (US) state of California with 4 per cent of the state’s forests been burnt to ashes due to continuous fires. According to media reports, a wildfire has broken out again in the canyon water pass of the state of Southern California injuring 2 fire brigade workers.…
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Infrared drone technology providing assistance to bushfire-hit koalas in Australia
SYDNEY, March 2 (Xinhua/APP): Highly specialized drone technology has been brought in on an Australian island to assist starving koalas in the aftermath of the recent bushfire crisis. Once a home to over 50,000 koalas, it’s now estimated there are only 10,000 left on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, after wildfires tore through around 2,100 square…
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Australia launches national inquiry into bushfires
Sydney, Feb 20 (AFP/APP): Australia set up a national inquiry Thursday into its five-month bushfire crisis that affected three in four Australians and prompted widespread criticism of the government for its sluggish response to the blazes. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the vast scale of the fires — which killed more than 30 people and…
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Bushfire crisis hit 75% of Australians: survey
Sydney, Feb 18 (AFP/APP): Three in four Australians — almost 18 million people — were affected by the country’s deadly bushfire crisis, according to a survey released Tuesday that also pointed to plummeting support for the government and for coal projects. The Australian National University study showed the vast human scale of the five-month crisis,…
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Australian bushfires extinguished, but climate rows rage on
Sydney, Feb 15 (AFP/APP): Australia’s “black summer” of devastating bushfires is finally coming to a close, but bitter arguments over how to tackle climate-fuelled disasters are raging on. When firefighters announced this week that all blazes in the hard-hit state of New South Wales were under control for the first time since September, the relief…
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Dams overflow as Australia braces for more floods
Sydney, Feb 13 (AFP/APP): Dams near Sydney overflowed Thursday after days of torrential rain, as Australia braced for more storms expected to bring dangerous flash flooding to the country’s east. Recent downpours have brought relief to areas ravaged by bushfires and drought — as well as chaos and destruction to towns and cities along the…
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Downpours to end Australia bushfires within days
Sydney, Feb 10 (AFP/APP): Australia’s months-long bushfires crisis will likely be over within days, officials said Monday as heavy rainfall extinguished several massive blazes and was forecast to douse dozens more as downpours swept south. Days of torrential rains have caused flash flooding in New South Wales and Queensland, dampening once-raging fires that volunteers had…
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Rains ‘breaking the back’ of Australia bushfire crisis
Sydney, Feb 7 (AFP/APP): Heavy rain was raising hopes Friday for an end to Australia’s unprecedented bushfire crisis, as downpours douse blazes that have burned out of control for months. The devastating fires, fuelled by prolonged drought and record-high temperatures, have raged since September, burning more than 10 million hectares (25 million acres) and killing…