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A historian of wildfires explains the difference between urban and rural fire cultures, and what it means for protecting communities in fire-prone rural areas.
New research shows that fire follows fire in the Australian Alps, and old-growth forests are less flammable.
In the aftermath of fires or logging, conservation needs to focus on recovering the health of the remaining vegetation, not just the size of the forest or woodland.
With wildfires continuing to rage across southern California, a fire researcher says lowering fire risk means reconsidering where and how we build our communities.
As firefighters contain the fires that have been raging since Oct. 8, California's wine industry is assessing the damage and hoping the tourists who fled the ash-filled air return.
Zero-burning policy could hurt small-holder farmers. The ban on the use of fire for land clearing has raised the costs to prepare their land for planting and to keep it pest-free.
Indonesian peatlands are important to many people: farmers, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and conservationists. But preserving this value for everyone will mean listening to everyone's concerns.
Climate change should have a significant impact on fire activity across the globe.
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
European invasion completely disrupted the way aboriginal Australians managed fire. Learning from Australia's first people could help us fight fires in the future.
Every year homes are lost in bushfires. But what if we build our houses to withstand fire?
New data analysis shows bushfires have increased by 40% in the past five years.
Fires in Tasmania have burnt thousands of hectares of wilderness. Other remote fires it's better to put them out quickly.
It is now well documented that women and men are exposed to bushfire risk in different ways and degrees due to everyday divisions of labour and gendered norms.
The tragic loss of homes and property after an escaped burnoff shows the complexities of managing risk in a fire-prone land.
The fire season has arrived in southern Australia, but with a big El Niño driving hotter temperatures, will this be worse than other summers?
On the African continent, more fire for crops leads to less rainfall.
News images of traumatised homeowners huddled in front of the ashes of their homes have become increasingly familiar in recent years. But the question has to be asked - why are we so often surprised when…
Australians have always had to live with bushfires - but climate change is driving that fire danger even higher. And we’re not talking about a distant threat to future generations. According to real observations…
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David Bowman adalah Sahabat The Conversation.Professor, Environmental Change Biology, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct professor, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
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PhD Student, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Research fellow, University of Wollongong
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne
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Soil Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Senior Lecturer in Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Griffith University
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Director, Centre for Environment, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Management and Wine Business, Sonoma State University
