Bushfires require three key ingredients to ignite: heat, fuel and oxygen.
Professional mountain climbers installing synthetic, waterproof tarps over the gutted, exposed exterior of Notre Dame Cathedral.
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The influence of Notre Dame Cathedral extended into every part of the life of Paris. The cathedral school was the training ground for medieval thinkers and the place of birth of the first university.
Flames and smoke rise as fire rages in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
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The Notre Dame Cathedral was long a powerful symbol of church authority - but it wasn’t static. The design kept changing to keep up with the changing times.
On a cold December night, the symbol of Russia’s imperial prowess went up in flames.
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Researchers can more easily compare heated rocks from different studies and areas.
Victorian Governor Linda Dessau places a flower on a model of Victoria at a memorial service for the ten-year anniversary of the 2009 Victorian bushfires.
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The Black Saturday fires transformed the way Australia responds to bushfires.
The fire in the Melbourne CBD on Monday was a reminder of the urgency of developing a system that guarantees only materials that meet building safety standards are used.
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Fortunately, no lives were lost in the latest cladding fire in Melbourne, but it’s a stark reminder of the urgent need to track and verify that building materials comply with safety standards.
Many children got burn injuries because of poor housing.
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Fires and logging changes forest soil structure for at least 30-80+ years, affecting everything from regrowth to carbon storage.
Storm clouds move over the Illawarra south of Sydney on Wednesday, November 28 2018. Sydney received more than a month’s worth of rain in just two hours, with Observatory Hill recording 84.6mm by 7am. The November average is 83.8mm.
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Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources e Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara
The dry, hot, downslope Santa Ana winds of Southern California fan late fall wildfires that have largely traveled through – and are fueled by – homes and other structures.
A firefighter in California. Firefighting is getting more and more expensive as fires get more destructive.
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The California fires are just the most recent in a series of major wildfires. Together, they suggest we need to look at alternative ways of living with fire.
Recent protest by residents and business owners.
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Viewed by many as the most important architectural building in Scotland’s largest city, the Mackintosh has been devastated for the second time in four years.
High intensity logging burns and the resulting smoke plume near Mount Baw Baw, April 2018
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Every autumn Victoria copes with smoke haze from planned burns that reduce bushfire risk, but a large part of that pollution actually comes from industrial logging activity.