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Josie Adams writes for The Spinoff
Bushfire season in Australia traditionally runs from December-March, but since August last year fires have been scorching the country in an unprecedented wave of destruction. We look at the fires by numbers.
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Read more: The numbers telling the terrible story
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/australia-bushfires-the-numbers-telling-the-terrible-story.html
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Australia is burning. Thousands of
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Read more: How Kiwis can help those affected by the Australian bushfires
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/118603130/how-kiwis-can-help-those-affected-by-the-australian-bushfires?cid=facebook.post
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This story was originally published on Newsroom.co.nz and is republished with permission.
New Zealand's old-growth forests, grasslands and one billion trees programme are a leafy basket of carbon sequestration. But is it wise to put all our eggs in one flammable basket? Eloise Gibson and Farah Hancock report on the risk fire poses to our above and below-ground carbon sinks
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Read more: The burning irony of our climate policy fix
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/118627452/the-burning-irony-of-our-climate-policy-fix
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Twenty-four alleged firestarters have been arrested in Australia after police clamped down on people deliberately starting fires.
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Read more: Police crack down on deliberate firestarters
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/australia-bushfires-police-crack-down-on-deliberate-firestarters.html
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The ABC were at it again last week, fawning over 23 former fire and emergency leaders who commented, outside their area of expertise, about an alleged relationship between bushfires and climate change.
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Read more: Stop blaming climate change for a bushfire crisis
- Article: https://volunteerfirefighters.org.au/it-is-high-time-bureaucrats-and-politicians-stopped-blaming-climate-change-for-a-bushfire-crisis-that-is-very-much-of-their-own-making-and-is-putting-lives-at-risk
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A swarm of flies try to flee a fridge before it is closed, taped up and thrown on a skip.
Soon, two skips are filled with trash from inside the abandoned Dunedin home.
"There is a real story to be told here," owner Carol Boyd says.
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Read more: Dunedin house left to squatters, then sold by bank after family vanishes
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116672637/dunedin-house-left-to-squatters-then-sold-by-bank-after-family-vanishes
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Almost 100 firebugs have deliberately started blazes across Queensland that have destroyed homes and consumed thousands of hectares of bushland.
Some 65 fires continued to burn across the state on Friday, jumping from 55 reported on Thursday, as the fire threat deepened heading into the weekend.
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Read more: Dozens of firebugs blamed for destructive Queensland fires
- Article: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/dozens-of-firebugs-blamed-for-destructive-queensland-fires-20191220-p53m1i.html
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We’ve sent the first of our three Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopters to undertake transport tasks to support Defence Australia's efforts in tackling the Australian fires. This week we’ll also be sending two New Zealand Army Combat Engineer Sections as well as a command element.
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Read more: RNZAF NH-90 off to Australia to help the ADF and the bushfires
- Article: https://medium.com/@nzdefenceforce/first-nzdf-contingent-departs-to-support-australian-fires-bf223f91c66c
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