Natural Disaster
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Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
“It just felt like you couldn’t breathe at all,” said Deyev, 32, who lives in Irkutsk, a Siberian region along…
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The Great Lakes depend on ice.
The region comes alive during winter. Alejundra Borunda National Geographic But both culture and the economy suffer when the cold…
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Coronavirus lockdown in Croatia’s capital of Zagreb hampered by magnitude-5.3 earthquake
A 15-year-old was reported to be in critical condition and several others were injured, news outlets reported. ABC News The…
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Call for Indigenous burning program used on remote cattle station to be adopted elsewhere
The Southern Gulf Natural Resource Management Group (NRM) started the program to conserve the endangered Carpentarian grasswren, which lives in…
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Last summer’s fish carnage sparked public outrage.
As this summer draws to a close, it marks just over a year since successive fish death events at Menindee…
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Polar bears are getting thinner and having fewer cubs.
The impact of the climate crisis is becoming more and more obvious to humans and their animal neighbors. Scottie Andrew…
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No food, no fuel, no phones: bushfires showed we’re only ever one step from system collapse
More broadly, they highlighted the immense vulnerability of the systems which make our contemporary lives possible. Anthony Richardson The Conversation…
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Barack Obama praises Melbourne environmental activist’s different approach to bushfire recovery
But in a repurposed shipping container in Oakleigh, in Melbourne’s south-east, a group of women are stirring, bottling and chatting…
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I tried to warn Scott Morrison about the bushfire disaster
I just returned from another round of fighting fires Greg Mullins The Guardian It was devastating to see the outcome…
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More than 1 billion animals dead or dying from bushfires, report finds
More than one billion animals are dead or dying from the bushfires in eastern Australia, according to a report released…
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Emergency fire warning: Residents in four towns north of Melbourne told it’s too late to leave
An emergency warning was issued for the small communities about 9.30pm on Sunday, replacing an earlier watch and act alert.…
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Weather shows evidence of climate change every single day since 2012
A single, torrential rainstorm one day in June. Alejandra Borunda National Geographic An unseasonably warm day in January. A cold…
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James Murdoch blasts News Corp’s ‘ongoing climate change denial’
Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son has revealed his “frustration” with News Corp’s coverage of climate change, pointing particularly to the “ongoing…
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Climate crisis likely to increase violent deaths of young people – report
Rising temperatures caused by global heating are likely to increase deaths from road crashes, violence, suicides and drowning, according to…
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Koalas could be listed as endangered in parts of the country after taking ‘extraordinary hit’
Not only have the fires killed vast numbers of threatened species, their extent and intensity has severely damaged the condition…
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Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis
The fact is, the experience of Aboriginal peoples in the fire crisis engulfing much of Australia is vastly different to…
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