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Writing from the edge of catastrophe: two new books clarify what's at stake if we fail to mitigate climate change

The Australian Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 were unspeakably grim. Twenty-four million hectares were burnt, 33 people died, and over a billion animals perished.

The Conversation

Endangered greater gliders adapt quickly to nest boxes after Black Summer

A new study has offered a glimpse of hope for researchers battling to conserve the endangered southern greater glider.

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'We're all struggling': Microgrid part of Cobargo bushfire recovery effort

The Badja Forest Road fire ripped through Cobargo on New Year's Eve and took several lives, parts of the main street and hundreds of houses with it.

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Braidwood FM launches The Heart of the Storm podcast about the Black Summer fires

Told entirely by local voices, the stories reveal the grit of the community when three years ago this week, Braidwood was under siege from the Black Range fire.

The Canberra Times

It's natural to want to feed wildlife after disasters. But it may not help

Over the past three years, Australians have been bombarded by natural disasters as record-breaking fires and monster floods hit communities hard.

The Conversation

Questions raised over lack of investigation into Cooma's burst water tank during Black Summer bushfires

As much of NSW's south-east burned during the night of January 4, 2020, an unexpected flood inundated dozens of homes when a water tank in north Cooma burst..

ABC News

Power company's bushfire plan 'inadequate'

Essential Energy says it is changing its bushfire risk policies, after a Black Summer bushfire burnt through 3000 hectares.

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NSW Bushfires Coronial Inquiry hears details about delayed emergency alerts, limited phone reception

A reported delay in sending emergency alerts and poor mobile reception in regional NSW are among issues examined by a coronial inquiry into the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires.

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Blaze unintended result of backburning

The Rural Fire Service agrees a report into the Grose Valley fire should clearly state it was the accidental result of backburning.

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NSW Rural Fire Service addressed a 'wounded' community seeking an apology after ill-fated back-burn

Residents are left with questions about a back-burn in the Blue Mountains during the Black Summer bushfires, as NSW Rural Fire Service commissioners address a community meeting of people devastated by the blaze.

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Hunter festival boss sues insurer over Black Summer cancellation

Organiser Scott Commens and the owners of Riverwood Downs decided to call off the event in the face of the 2019 bushfires, which were burning just kilometres away from the festival site.

Newcastle Herald

Insurer sued over bushfire-axed festival

Lloyd's has been hit with a lawsuit for around $870,000 after refusing to compensate a NSW music festival cancelled during the Black Summer bushfires.

AAP

NSW 'hero' learned of sacking in media

The fire chief who guided NSW through the Black Summer bushfire crisis says he learned via media reports he was getting sacked from a state disaster agency.

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A witty memoir of taking on the family farm reckons with Indigenous dispossession and climate change

It’s been a tough couple of years for Australian farmers. Just months after Black Summer’s devastation, the pandemic struck. Catastrophic floods soon followed. African Swine Fever and foot and mouth on our doorstep pose an enormous threat, as do the more banal issues of inflation and labour shortages.

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Australia's Black Summer bushfires were catastrophic enough. Now scientists say they caused a 'deep, long-lived' hole in the ozone layer

UK researchers reveal Australia's Black Summer bushfires likely damaged the ozone layer and caused the highest temperatures in the stratosphere in 30 years.

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RSPCA Vic and Zoos Vic Koala Ward opening

A new koala hospital has opened at Werribee Open Range Zoo, funded by donations to the RSPCA and Zoos Victoria following the Black Summer bushfire crisis

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Bushfires in 2019 warmed sky like volcano

The Black Summer bushfires caused the largest stratospheric warming since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, new research suggests.

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Fire recovery 'to cost $16 billion a year'

Scientists say it will cost $16 billion each year to partially restore the environmental damage done by the Black Summer bushfires.

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Koala sighting near Lithgow raises hopes of unmapped colony after Blue Mountains bushfire destruction

Unexpected sightings of koalas near the Blue Mountains give hope that a disease-free colony is recovering after the Black Summer bushfires.

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Plibersek lists more species after fires

Australia's threatened species list just got longer with the addition of a striking black cockatoo and an alpine lizard hit hard in the Black Summer fires.

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Historic Kosciuszko hut rebuilt, ready to use after Black Summer bushfires

One of the most renowned structures in Kosciuszko National Park rises from the ashes of a bushfire to help preserve the region's history.

AAP

Ex-NSW minister backs Resilience NSW boss

Ex-NSW minister Andrew Constance has slammed plans for Resilience NSW head Shane Fitzsimmons to lose his job and his agency wound down over the flood response.

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Saving burned or injured animals draws our sympathy. But some don't survive after release. Here's why

Every year, Australia’s wildlife volunteers devote time, effort and their own money to rescue, rehabilitate and release tens of thousands of native animals. Their efforts get a lot of media attention, particularly after huge disasters like the megafires of the 2019 Black Summer.

ABC News

Life-saving technology to be fitted to every Rural Fire Service truck in wake of Black Summer bushfires

A small piece of technology, the size of a tablet, is being hailed as a game changer for firefighters if they ever face another Black Summer of bushfires.

ABC News

Three million trees are being planted in the NSW Central West but timber shortage drives 40pc price rise

After the Black Summer bushfires decimated 25 per cent of NSW timber plantations, seedlings are being planted across 2,400 hectares in the state's Central West.

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