Sentences with phrase «of bushfires»

«The first Australians knew how to deal with [the risk of bushfires] through regular backburning.

Extreme heat and high winds fanned dozens of bushfires across Australia on Friday, prompting hundreds to flee their homes in some of the worst conditions seen since Black Saturday in 2009.

From NASA: NASA's Terra satellite detected dozens of bushfires continued raging in the Australian state of New South Wales, outside of Sydney.

«Through the success of the inquiry learning and problem - based project of Firestorm, Stage 3 students proved that they can be the catalyst for the community of St Ives to consider the impact of bushfire.»

Australia's climate is expected to become warmer and drier overall.3 In a medium - emissions scenario, 19 temperatures are projected to rise about 1.8 ° F (1 ° C) in the next few decades.3 Rainfall is expected to decline 3 - 5 percent, and evaporation to increase 2 - 4 percent3 — creating conditions conducive to an environment for increasing frequency of bushfires.

He described the intensity of bushfires especially during the harmattan season as a human security threat, hence the move to stop the practice.

The Yendi Divisional Police Command has arrested five persons for causing the destruction of wooden electricity poles after they lost control of bushfires they started.

«Much of this grass is fully dried and is ready to burn,» says Gary Morgan of the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre in Melbourne.

While Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he accepts the reality of climate change, he abolished the country's Climate Change Commission in September, and rejected any link that global warming was responsible for a series of bushfires across New South Wales state in October.

In our research we have also examined loss of life by searching out and inspecting the coroners» records of all bushfire deaths that have occurred since 1900.

The vertical axis shows House Equivalents, which is an attempt to capture all property losses — residential, commercial and industrial buildings --- but in the case of bushfire (your wildfire) you can simply take this metric as being approximately equal to the number of residential homes destroyed.

Lightning - strike setting fire to trees or dry grass is a common cause of bushfires.

The conditions needed for bushfires - a continuous layer of dry vegetation coupled with hot, windy weather - are increasingly occurring in the Australian landscape, Professor Ross Bradstock, from the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires at the University of Wollongong, said.

The Prime Minister's linking of the bushfires to climate change was a significant event, because it makes it much harder to backtrack politically.

The environment minister Greg Hunt revealed that he looked Australia's history of bushfires on Wikipedia and concluded that there was no link between the latest outbreaks and climate change.

«We've had well over 200 years of bushfires since European settlement.

It's easy to understand why there's widespread support for politicians and others who argue we shouldn't talk about climate change in the middle of a bushfire emergency.

Indirectly, these changes will increase the severity of bushfires and droughts.

We are suffering terrible climate change damage — consider the decline in run - off in the Murray Basin, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and violence in extreme weather events, increased ferocity of bushfires and length of the fire danger season, increasing acidity of the oceans and rise in sea levels, the decline in rainfall in the southern half of the country, the damage to the Great Barrier Reef, etc. — we should reduce our CO2 production levels for our own benefit.

Her house and her car were all completely engulfed by the sudden onslaught of the bushfires.

If you are not sure what you are covered for, you should get a copy of your Product Disclosure Statement and Policy schedule and your Certificate of Insurance covering the date of the bushfire.

«The RFS role was pivotal in sharing their expertise in bushfire management, in sharing their stories about what it was like to be in a bushfire [and] in providing current, accurate data about the impact of bushfires... but more importantly [to] provide a critical yet supportive audience where the students felt that their ideas were valued and their solutions were viable.»

'' For instance, the intensity and frequency of bushfires is greater [no evidence.

If children who show signs of stress don't get support and understanding and appropriate reassurance at an early stage, the emotional effects of the bushfire can continue over many months.

Note: Proponents of ongoing logging argue that if forests are left alone the risk of bushfire is increased and that the risk of releasing emissions to the atmosphere is increased.

Twenty - five years ago, what's thought to be the very first scientific paper in the world suggesting global warming could increase the risk of bushfires was published in Australia (to give you an idea of how long scientists have been looking at this, 1987 was also the year that Aussies got a cell phone network, the year Fred Astaire died and the year Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi was born).

As temperatures and CO2 in the air goes up, so to does the risk of bushfires.

In making his statement, Mr Abbott has dismissed out of hand the work of scientists going back more than 25 years showing that as temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions go up, so do the risks of bushfires.