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‘You’re constantly worrying’: pregnant women, bushfire smoke and the impossibility of safety

If you were pregnant or parenting during Australia’s 2019–20 summer of smoke and fire, chances are you felt acutely anxious – and grappling with impossible responsibility.
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Our planet is burning in unexpected ways - here’s how we can protect people and nature

We used satellite data to create global maps of where and how fires are burning. Fire season lasts two weeks longer than it used to and fires are more intense. But there are regional differences.
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200 experts dissected the Black Summer bushfires in unprecedented detail. Here are 6 lessons to heed

In one finding, fire authorities chose to save a few farm sheds over 5,000 hectares of national park. Clearly, our fire management needs a reset.
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How 1970s conservation laws turned this ‘paradise on Earth’ into a tinderbox

New research finds the Victorian town of Buchan never experienced catastrophic bushfires, until misguided laws banned the use of burning as a way to control the land.

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