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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.
South west Australia is home to an astonishing number of plants and some of the country’s weirdest wildlife. Now we need to protect it.
Recent bushfires have not just destroyed human lives and property, but pushed some species further down the path to extinction.
Bushfires are threatening Tasmania’s World Heritage area and ancient plants, warning us of a possible future under climate change.
The Christmas Day fires that struck the Victorian town of Wye River are an example of how to get emergency responses right.
Why do people still die in bushfires? Recent fires have triggered a debate about emergency warnings.
Victoria is moving away from burnoff targets to a new strategy for managing bushfire risk.
While Indonesia has taken steps to address the worst forest fires in living memory, a new palm oil alliance with Malaysia threatens to take a giant leap back.
Australians are still underprepared for bushfires. And with fire seasons getting longer thanks to climate change we need to look at why people are still dying in fires, and what you can do to get prepared.
More land is burned in northern Australia during August and October than any other time of the year, and it’s not just a natural disaster.
Federal agencies pay much of the cost to fight forest fires, which means taxpayers are subsidizing the risky practice of building more homes at the wildland-urban interface.
A huge El Niño on the horizon bodes ill for drought and forest fire.
On the African continent, more fire for crops leads to less rainfall.
New early-warning systems are being developed and they’re warning of imminent danger.
Historically, bushfires have played an important role in Australian literature, adding a touch of exoticism in fiction written for readers back in Europe, while also offering insights into the dangers…
We’ve been burning things for hundreds of thousands of years. Australian Aboriginals practised fire-stick farming to regenerate the soil and drive out animals for hunting. Yet manmade fires not only enable…
Weeds cost Australian farmers around A$4 billion every year — and they are likely to do a similar amount of damage to the environment. In a new global survey published this week in Proceedings of the National…
Five years on from the devastating Black Saturday fires that swept through central Victoria in February 2009, research shows that people and communities are largely recovering well. In the first major…
Top contributors
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong
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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor, Charles Darwin University
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Future Fire Risk Analyst, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Tasmania
