The Guardian • bush fire
Issue #2018
Listen to the science! State of the environment report
During the 2019-2020 bushfires thirty-three lives were lost, more than seven million hectares were burnt, more than 3,000 home destroyed. In the most recent floods,...
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Issue #2017
State of the Environment report
“Overall, the state and trend of the environment of Australia are poor and deteriorating as a result of increasing pressures from climate change, habitat loss,...
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Issue #2104
Bushfire survivors call Dutton out
Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) has spoken out in response to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s statements that the Federal Liberal Party would dump Australia’s...
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Issue #2129
GREEN NOTES
In many parts of the nation, First Nations working with non-Aboriginal Australians has emerged as a sustainable way of dealing with the environmental challenges posed...
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Issue #2034
Climate change wreaks havoc
Lives have been lost and thousands of homes have been flooded and destroyed as the floods continue to hit eastern Australia. People have lost their...
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Issue #2129
LA fires a warning of things to come
Global Climate Scientists have confirmed 2024 was the world’s hottest since records began, eclipsing the previous record set in 2023 and raising the alarm that...
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Issue #2087
DINGO
Dingo has received a letter from Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, [covered in Guardian #2086 on 5 February 2024 in ‘Black Saturday survivors call for...
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Issue #2176
Indigenous knowledge can help reduce impacts of bushfires, floods, and cyclones
Australia is facing devastating weather emergencies across the country, including bushfires, flooding, and tropical cyclones. Indigenous communities, with a unique connection to the land, are...
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Issue #2161
Desert megafires set to worsen under climate change
Rohan Fisher, Senior Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University says “Hardly anyone’s heard of the Australian ‘Black Spring’ bushfires of 2023. But the fires that...
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Issue #2070
Speeding up
Things are speeding up. Climate change has gone from causing the cliched reaction ‘I’m worried about my grandchildren,’ to ‘I worry about my children,’ to...
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Issue #2086
Black Saturday survivors call for action
Fifteen years after the catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires in regional Victoria, which killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2000 homes, bushfire survivors and former...
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Issue #2065
FUND PUBLIC HOUSING!
The housing crisis continues to deepen with an estimated shortfall of 640,000 houses. Recent interest rate rises are still to take their toll on home...
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Issue #2105
Climate disasters force Australians to move a quarter of a million times
Australians have been forced to move more than 240,000 times in recent years due to worsening disasters, with the hardest hit communities experiencing extreme weather...
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Issue #2147
Climate change and mental health
Australia is experiencing more floods, droughts and bushfires as climate change continues to gather pace. The findings of scientific studies reaffirm the interplay between resources,...
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Issue #2106
EDITORIAL
If you’re in Australia, you might be pretty cold just now, but you’ll be hearing a lot about heatwaves, some extreme examples have been making...
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