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Cats Are Making Australia's Bushfire Tragedy Even Worse. ... Scientists have previously shown that feral cats hunt surviving animals across recently burned lands in Australia, exploiting many of the victims' injured or weakened state. One study found that a feral cat journeyed 19 miles to a burn scar.
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Yes, Australia has always had bushfires: but 2019 is like nothing we've seen before. As the area burned across Australia this fire season pushes beyond five million hectares, an area larger than many countries, stories of destruction have become depressingly familiar.
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How did the fires in Australia start? ... Hot, dry weather combined with ongoing drought and strong winds have created the perfect conditions for fire to spread quickly. Bushfires can originate from both human activity and natural causes - with lightning being the predominant natural source.
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More than 1 billion mammals, birds and reptiles nationwide — some of them found nowhere else on Earth — may have been affected or killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a University of Sydney estimate. The potential toll is far greater when other types of animals are included.
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Australia's deadly fires have been fuelled by a combination of extreme heat, prolonged drought and strong winds. The country is in the grip of a heatwave, with record-breaking temperatures over the last three months.
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Australia fires were far worse than any prediction. The Australian bushfires were more catastrophic than any simulation of our changing climate predicted. This is the conclusion of researchers who described the devastation as a "fiery wake-up call for climate science".
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Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia's devastating wildfires in 2019 and 2020, according to a new report, with experts calling it "one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history".
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September 2019 to March 2020 From September 2019 until March 2020, when the final fire was extinguished, Australia had one of the worst bush fires in history. 2019 had been the hottest record year for Australia, with the bushfire season starting in June 2019.
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In recent times most major bush fires have been started in remote areas by dry lightning. Some reports indicate that a changing climate could also be contributing to the ferocity of the 2019–20 fires with hotter, drier conditions making the country's fire season longer and much more dangerous.
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Temperatures surpassed 40C (104F) in parts of south-east Australia on Saturday as fires ravaged through homes and land. Since September, the fires in Australia have killed at least 23 people. Dozens of people are missing and some 1,500 homes have already been lost this fire season.
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About 40 bushfires are burning across the state following a heatwave, said Queensland Fire and Emergency Services. ... Most of the other bushfires are being contained, authorities said. Unlike in Australia's drier south, intense fire conditions are unusual in Queensland in late November because it is the wet season.
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Over 1 billion animals feared dead in Australian wildfires, experts say. The loss includes thousands of koalas, along with other species such as kangaroos and wallabies. This has the potential to hasten koalas' slide towards extinction in the wild in eastern Australia.
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Bushfires have killed at least eight people in south-eastern Australia since Monday, while two others remain unaccounted for. The latest fires, which raced towards the coast this week, have also destroyed more than 200 homes.
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While fire in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to the capital city, has spread to more than 55,000 hectares (136,000 acres), close to a quarter of the territory's entire landmass, the heat fuelling the danger is subsiding.
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Australia is finally getting rain — but it's likely not enough to extinguish the fires devastating the country and might result in its own extreme weather. Firefighters have welcomed the rain in areas like Victoria and New South Wales, where they say it is helping to weaken fires.
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“They're in true peril, real peril of extinction.” More than 1 billion mammals, birds and reptiles nationwide — some of them found nowhere else on Earth — may have been affected or killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a University of Sydney estimate.