For more than 800 years, frequent cultural burning kept this land as stable, open woodland.
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The tool can help communities better understand their local conditions and prepare for bushfires early.
Renowned wine regions from Australia to South Africa are battling increasingly fierce fire seasons.
Over the past 12 months, the federal government has approved multiple fossil fuel projects and cut climate science funding.
Global warming is set to surpass the 1.5°C limit if governments worldwide fail to act.
Heavy rains after the Black Summer megafires drove rapid regrowth of plants. But these signs of recovery can hide the true story.
These fine particles can do significant harm to transport networks, farming and even human health.
This term describes dramatic swings between different kinds of extreme weather.
We have to stop thinking of droughts simply as a static state of low moisture. Rapid drought changes can send fire risk soaring.
The fires facing Spanish and French firefighters are harder to put out – and much more intense.
Australia may enter spring with a highly flammable landscape – and no room for complacency.
AusAlert is a significant improvement to Australia’s emergency warnings, but the question isn’t just about whether it works.
A new study unpacks how Victoria’s eucalypt forests have coped with past bushfires – with lessons for the future.
A hotter, drier and more fire-prone future is putting these unique trees at risk.
Australia’s weather extremes are increasingly arriving back-to-back in a ‘weather whiplash’.
Without First Nations people, Kangaroo Island has burned widely over the past 2,000 years as the climate got drier.
Citizen science relies on people like you. Here are five projects where science lives beyond the lab.
After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more fire prone.
Extreme weather events are increasingly coming in waves, giving communities just days or hours to recover before the next disaster hits.
On a hot or smoky day, a shopping centre or library can offer refuge. We need to design climate havens with the warming future in mind.
Top contributors
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong
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Deputy Director, Engagement and Impact, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor (Practice) in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Deputy Head of School, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University