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Mambo Wetlands bushfire: wind change key to keeping fire under control

A FIRE which reached the rear of several properties at Salamander Bay on Tuesday will be monitored carefully while water bombing helicopters attempt to douse the flames.

Newcastle Herald

Roads closed as Coalfields shed fire takes hold

Government Road at Loxford was closed yesterday as a team of 20 fire fighters fought to keep a shed fire under control.

Newcastle Herald

Rain, snowfall reduce risk of wildfires in California

A turn to wet weather has blunted an already moderate wildfire season in California but some risk remains as changing climate has made a rainy fall no guarantee of a stormy winter

The Independent UK

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Massive blaze rips through former care home as people warned to keep windows closed

At least ten fire crews were at the site of a former care home in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, which caught alight earlier this evening as people were told to stay away

Daily Mirror

Wildfire smoke may warm the Earth for longer than we thought

As atmospheric chemists living in a region frequently polluted by wildfire smoke, we wanted to know more about these effects.

Inverse

Ore. residents agog at wildfire warning

Homeowners fear the state will devalue their properties by publicizing their fire risk

Salon

Climate change hampers fire reduction efforts after successful decade in Kimberley

In the 2000s wildfires raged in the Kimberley until a huge increase in planned burning reduced their impact. But climate change means that success is far from guaranteed into the future.

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House fire in Farrer closes road

The street was closed in both directions.

The Canberra Times

Healthy Country plan to save glossy black cockatoos underway in Shoalhaven

Aboriginal custodians take a leading role as they work with the NSW government to rehabilitate crucial habitat for the glossy black cockatoo.

ABC News

Fires blazing across Top End amid heatwave, lightning strikes

Across the Northern Territory, thousands of square kilometres of parched savanna and grazing land have been reduced to ashes as bushfires spread rapidly amid another heatwave and weeks of ongoing electrical storms.

ABC News

How 1970s conservation laws turned this ‘paradise on Earth’ into a tinderbox

Southeast Australia’s bushfire crisis culminated in the devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020 that burnt nearly 25 million hectares of bush.

The Conversation

'Burn boss' arrest inflames Western land use tensions

A ranching family in Oregon is applauding the arrest of the leader of a U.S. Forest Service crew that carried out a prescribed burn in a national forest that spread onto the family’s property

The Independent UK

Official: 2021 Colorado wildfire losses surpass $2 billion

A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history

The Independent UK

California tree carnage: A decade of drought and fire killed a third of Sierra Nevada forests

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.

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The Guardian - UK

Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says

Glasgow Live

Huge Lanarkshire fire spotted from motorway as flames engulf building in deliberate attack

Police have launched an investigation after the blaze ripped through the derelict building on Saturday night, and say they are treating the incident as wilful and appealed for witnesses.

The Independent UK

Fires in Nebraska, Iowa spur evacuations, destroy homes

Prairie fires pushed by winds topping 60 mph led to evacuations in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa and destroyed homes and injured two firefighters south of Nebraska's capital city

Newcastle Herald

Two injured during house fire at Cooranbong

A man who was unaccounted for after a house fire at Cooranbong has been located safe and well as fire investigators work to determine the cause of the blaze.

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Prolonged poor air quality in Washington hits highest mark in past decade

SEATTLE — Rain and winds in the Seattle area are a welcome relief as they pushed out wildfire smoke that has clouded the air for weeks on end.

Axios

Seattle has world's worst air quality as wildfire smoke clouds Pacific NorthWest

The top 10 places in the U.S. with the worst air quality today are all in Washington or Oregon as fires rage in the states.

The Conversation

Wildfire smoke may warm the Earth for longer than we thought

Wildfires are a major source of air pollution. They are also predicted to worsen as climate change progresses.

Los Angeles Times

Mountain lions face greater risk of becoming roadkill in wildfire’s aftermath, study says

LOS ANGELES — Conservationists have long warned that Southern California mountain lions could vanish within decades due to inbreeding and loss of habitat. Now, biologists have identified another threat that could hasten their demise — extreme wildfires.

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California wildfires reversed years of climate change progress in 2020 alone, study says

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s record-setting wildfires of 2020 destroyed 4.2 million acres of forest — and erased years of progress the state made on battling climate change.

The Conversation

Wildfires reshape forests and change the behavior of animals that live there

In the arid American West, wildfires now define summer. Recent years have seen some of the worst wildfires in recorded history. Climate change, the loss of Indigenous burning practices and a century of fire suppression are increasing the risk of larger, hotter and more frequent wildfires.

Axios

Worsening California wildfires are a major carbon emissions problem

Wildfires would rank as the 2nd-biggest source of CO2 emissions statewide in 2020.

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