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Welcome to the big smoke: hazy days from WA prescribed burns triple in a decade
Spring is coming, and that means the city will be cloaked in days of smoke as authorities take advantage of every opportunity to meet their prescribed burning target.
- by Sarah Brookes
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Record July heat prompts dire warning: Act now ‘or we all scorch and fry’
The warmest temperatures for tens of thousands of years are prompting yet more calls from experts for urgent action on climate.
- by Nick O'Malley
Plane fighting Greek island wildfire crashes, killing both pilots; Italian blaze turns deadly
Summer wildfires blamed on climate change have also struck other Mediterranean countries, leaving at least 34 people dead in Algeria and two people dead in southern Italy Tuesday.
- by Michael Varaklas and Derek Gatopoulos
Fires blaze on island of Rhodes as dozens more start across Greece
Thousands spent the night on beaches and streets during what Greece said was its biggest safe transport of residents and tourists in emergency conditions.
- by Fedja Grulovic
Widespread fire concern for majority of state after years of heavy rain
As a hot and dry summer approaches, fire agencies are worried fires will sweep across large parts of the state that burnt during the Black Summer Bushfires.
- by Laura Chung
The missing factor preventing the BoM from declaring an El Nino event
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is an outlier among global weather agencies because of the specific conditions it requires for an El Nino declaration.
- by Mike Foley
Europe
Greece
Tourists forced to flee as fire rages on Greek island
Coastguard vessels and private boats evacuated thousands of people from beaches on the island of Rhodes, where fires raged for a fifth straight day.
The hottest July in 120,000 years. What’s in store for Australia this summer?
The scorching heatwaves in Europe, Asia and America provide a glimpse into Australia’s near future and suggest the impacts of global warming might have been underestimated.
- by Nick O'Malley and Angus Dalton
Weather extremes are thrashing the world, and it’s just a taste of what’s to come
Signs of catastrophic weather events have been brewing in oceans around the globe for months.
- by Laura Chung and Angus Dalton
‘Uncharted territory’: UN declares El Nino weather event as records near
As oceans and land warm to near-record temperatures and the United Nations declares an El Nino event has begun, scientists have warned the world is heading into uncharted territory.
- by Laura Chung
Last year 5 million hectares of land was burnt in WA. So, does prescribed burning work?
Calls for an independent inquiry into WA’s prescribed burning program have been rejected by a parliamentary committee despite scientists labelling the practice damaging.
- by Sarah Brookes