Residents in Central Victoria urged to take shelter from autumn bushfire
Residents near the town of Benloch are told to immediately take shelter from a bushfire burning nearby.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/bushfire-shelter-warning-for-residents-near-benloch/105211922
‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’
"We are now on track to a three-degree world, which is still a world we absolutely do not want to live in...Capitalism as we know it now would be unviable. We are on track to tear it down by accident." Climatologist Friederike Otto
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/19/climatologist-friederike-otto-the-more-unequal-the-society-is-the-more-severe-the-climate-disaster
#ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #disasters #insurance #inequality #ClimateCrisis #floods #bushfires #habitability
Once a myth, fire tornadoes are now a reality as climate changes
By Laura Mayers
John King captured footage of a 100-metre-tall fire tornado only 50 metres from his back door. Fire analysts say the phenomenon is becoming more common as the climate changes.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/fire-tornados-grampians-more-common-climate-change/105156168
Debate rages over push to declare buffel grass a weed of national significance
"A pasture grass providing benefits as feed for livestock is not considered a weed."
End of debate.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-20/graziers-and-environmentalists-clash-over-buffel-grass/105145268
#biodiversity #monoculture #livestock #cattle #lobby #SettlerSociety #weeds #bushfires
Easter travellers warned of fire danger, algal bloom
By Isabella Carbone
South Australians are being urged to take care with campfires over Easter, as the fire danger season is extended for the Mount Lofty Ranges. Beachgoers are also being warned to assess local conditions as an algal bloom persists along parts of the coast.
This town is a 'canary in the coal mine' as climate change threatens home ownership
By Jess Davis, Andy Burns, Mark Doman, Katia Shatoba, Alex Palmer, Thomas Brettell, Fran Rimrod, Lucy Sweeney, and Tim Leslie
New data shows dozens of suburbs around the country are at risk of becoming uninsurable, triggering warnings of a "climate-induced credit crunch".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-15/climate-change-pushing-up-insurance-risk-data-shows/105154662
#Insurance #Floods #ClimateChange #LocalGovernment #Weather #Bushfires #Storms #Cyclones #Droughts #Fires #Economy #HousingConstructionIndustry #Banking #Mortgages #JessDavis #AndyBurns #MarkDoman #KatiaShatoba #AlexPalmer #ThomasBrettell #FranRimrod #LucySweeney # #TimLeslie
Understanding the health impacts of the climate crisis
and imagining a positive future
"Climate change is the greatest threat to human health now."
"Climate change is already causing significant shifts in weather patterns and an increase in extreme weather events around the world, including droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, storms and floods."
"The major cause of pollution is the burning of fossil fuels, further motivating action on reducing GHG; adverse weather events, such as heatwaves, can acutely amplify pollution impacts."
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2514664525000190
#climate #FossilFuels #meat #food #water #insecurity #mentalhealth #neurology #ClimateBreakdown #ExtremeHeatwaves #drought #bushfires #floods #pollution #pesticides #InfectiousDiseases #mortality #restoration #biosphere #inaction #governance
Airborne Hazards
Smoke pollution from pile burning, bushfires and burn pits
Push for Australia to recognise toxic burn pits in Afghanistan as cause of cancer in soldiers >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/burn-pits-afghanistan-iraq-causing-adf-soldiers-cancer/105004910
Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures (US)
"Open air pits used to burn several waste products, including, but not limited to: chemicals, paint, medical and human waste, metal/aluminum cans, munitions, petroleum and lubricant products, plastics and Styrofoam, rubber, wood, and food waste."
List of illnesses from airborne hazards and burn pit exposures >>
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/burnpits/
Pile burning in rural NSW
"Burning of cut and stacked vegetation is referred to as a pile burn." The piles often also contain waste materials. >>
https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/13323/Standards-for-Pile-Burning-V2.pdf
Black Summer bushfire smoke
"Before summer's end, 33 people had lost their lives, more than 3,000 homes had been destroyed, and more than 17 million hectares of land had been burnt, devastating lives and regional economies. Many cities and towns were blanketed in smoke with air quality ranking amongst the worst in the world.">>
https://www.apsc.gov.au/state-service/state-service-report-2019-20/chapter-1-commitment-service/black-summer
Greater gliders' spectacular recovery after bushfires https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/greater-glider-population-booms-after-blue-mountain-bushfires/105003914
"Endangered #GreaterGliders in part of the southern #BlueMountains have made a spectacular recovery after the black summer #bushfires in 2019-20... the #marsupials' numbers are 45% higher than were before the fires began in 2019... Greater gliders are like #koalas. They feed exclusively on #eucalypt foliage... there's been a lot of new eucalypt foliage for them to feed on"
Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks
"This paper studies how the relations between nature and society are constructed in disaster governance frameworks. Dominant disaster governance frameworks present nature and society as separate realms, and the organisation of society is increasingly seen as the key cause of hazards and disasters. Disaster impacts are similarly framed around adverse societal consequences, while other-than-human nature is merely the background across which disasters unfold, as property lost, or a means of disaster governance. Although the centrality of human impacts is troubled when biodiversity or a disaster flagship species is threatened, neither situation challenges the nature–society dualism embedded in dominant disaster governance frameworks. The attention and resources of disaster governance target the societal side of nature–society dualism. This study finds, though, that in peripheries characterised by remoteness from centres of power, a sparse human population, and large spaces of other-than-human nature, the vulnerabilities facing humans and other-than-human nature risk being ungoverned."
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Meriläinen, E. (2025). Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks. Disasters, 49(2), e12678. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12678
#disasters #NaturalDisasters #governance #property #tourism #NSW #remoteness #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #acceleration #climate #Bushfires #floods #cyclone #FirstResponders #trauma #nature #biodiversity #forests #NSWLogging #roads #koalas #deforestation #OtherThanHumanNature #NatureSocietyDualism #peripheries #vulnerability
ADVICE: Sandstone Caves fire (Warrumbungle LGA)
Firefighters continue work to contain a bush fire burning in the vicinity of the Newell Highway between Coonabarabran and Narrabri. The fire, which is more than 1,900 hectares in size, is burning in remote bushland within the Pilliga Nature Reserve. The Newell Highway remains closed with diversions via the Oxley and Kamilaroi highways.
With hot and dry conditions forecast to continue over coming days, residents in the area are urged to stay up to date via the Hazards Near Me app and RFS website: www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fnm
#Australien muss seine #Siedlungsplanung besser an zunehmende #Naturkatastrophen anpassen. 
Eine neue Studie fordert bessere Integration von #Wohnungsbau, #Katastrophenschutz und #Stadtplanung. Wichtige Maßnahmen dafür: keine Neubauten in #Hochrisikogebieten, mehr #Resilienz in bestehenden Wohngebieten und klare Strategien für Umsiedlungen. 
It was 32° Celsius in my bedroom when I last looked after 11pm last night.
There must have been some winds around as I slept, as #SES crews are around town clearing branches & trees from the roads.
The local #firies are at the fire station, having breakfast & waiting to see what the day brings. (There were 2 small #bushfires yesterday evening about 9km’s from me).
Prescribed burn in the the Valley of the Giants gone wrong
Save the tourist infrastructure not the national park?
"A plan to protect tourist infrastructure has resulted in an estimated 180 large trees falling over. Western Australian authorities say the planned burn was carried out east of the Valley of the Giants precinct to protect visitor infrastructure. While the tourist hub was untouched, conservationists say the fire has been "catastrophic" for a nearby section of bushland, and the outcome should have been predicted."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/popular-aussie-national-park-too-dangerous-to-enter-after-botched-project-053459736.html
The Dorrigo Arc Rainforest Centre in Dorrigo National Park tourist "upgrade".
Dorrigo Escarpment great walk review of environmental factors: public consultation
Have your say on the review of environmental factors
until Monday 24 February 2025.
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https://www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/parks-reserves-and-protected-areas/park-management/community-engagement/walking-tracks-and-trails-in-national-parks/dorrigo-great-walk/dorrigo-escarpment-great-walk-review-environmental-factors
#tourism #infrastructure #clutter #Dorrigo #rainforest #systemic #failure #values #bushfires #ControlledBurn #NationalParks
I'm in Devonport today, on the north coast, and even the sea breeze can't blow away the taste of smoke in the air.
#tasmania #lutruwita #fire #bushfires #climatechange #climate
Wilmington bushfire burns 15 per cent of SA's Mount Remarkable National Park - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-07/wilmington-bushfire-burns-mount-remarkable-national-park-sa/104908806
The quiet catastrophe unfolding in outback #Australia after spread of invasive species https://au.news.yahoo.com/the-quiet-catastrophe-unfolding-in-outback-australia-after-spread-of-invasive-species-005659161.html
Smoke haze in Adelaide from bushfire 700 kms away
#Australia #summersunday #bushfires
