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Slow variables that shape bushfire resilience

Creating the perfect firestorm on the BBC writes about two of the slow variables that produce a fire situation: climate and fuel accumulation: Current climate projections point to an increase in fire-weather risk from warmer and drier conditions. Two simulations … Continue reading

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Tim Flannery on Australian bushfires

Australian mammalogist and writer Tim Flannery on the Australian bushfires in a Guardian article Australian bushfires: when two degrees is the difference between life and death: The day after the great fire burned through central Victoria, I drove from Sydney … Continue reading

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Stephen Pyne on the Australian fires

American fire historian Stephen Pyne comments in The Australian on the current Australian fires in Bushfire leader becomes laggard: Australia knows better. It developed many key concepts of fire ecology and models of bushfire behaviour. It pioneered landscape-scale prescribed burning … Continue reading

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