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Australia Bushfire Season 2019-2020
Australia
The catastrophic and unprecedented 2019–20 Australian bushfire season burned an estimated 48 million acres, destroyed more than 5,900 homes and other structures, and killed at least 34 people and an estimated 1 billion animals.[1]
Australia has seen a long-term increase in the risk of fires and a lengthening bushfire season due to climate change, particularly in the southeast, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Winter rainfall has been decreasing in the southeast, while the country has been becoming hotter with more extreme heatwaves — ideal conditions for bushfires.
Jan 27, 2020 | Reuters
Australia's rainy respite from bushfires seen ending
Jan 24, 2020 | Mashable
Australia's weather has been super weird this week. Here's why.
Jan 8, 2020 | Vox
Bushfires have killed a staggering 1 billion animals in Australia
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Jan 7, 2020 | Tim Flannery via CNN
[QUOTE] Scientist: 'I'm certain' climate change caused Australia fires
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Jan 6, 2020 | Washington Post via John Muyskens
[VIDEO] Smoke from Australian fires drifts over New Zealand
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Jan 3, 2020 | Austrlian Buereau of Meteorology
[REPORT] State of the Climate 2018, Australia
Jan 2, 2020 | Nature Climate Change
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale
Apr 4, 2018 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
EEE 2016: Anthropogenic Forcings and Associated Changes in Fire Risk in Western North America and Australia During 2015/16
Mar 2, 2016 | Climate Council of Australia
Heatwaves: Hotter, Longer, More Often
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