what percent of australia is burning?
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'Unprecedented' globally: more than 20% of Australia's forests burnt in bushfires. More than 20% of Australia's forests burned during the summer's bushfire catastrophe, a proportion scientists believe is unprecedented globally, according to new research.
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Australia fires burn through 15 million acres of land, kill at least 25 peopleThe fires in Australia's outback are even larger than the recent massive wildfires in California and the Amazon Rainforest, and shows how the effects of climate change reach all corners of the globe.
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As fires continue to rip through Australia, some devastating numbers are emerging: At least 24 people killed. More than 15.6 million acres torched. Over 1,400 homes destroyed. And, according to one biodiversity expert's count, an estimated 1 billion animals killed.
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Rain Brought Brief Relief to Australia. For much of the 2019-2020 austral summer, plumes of bushfire smoke have billowed from southeastern Australia in such large amounts that the ground was barely visible in satellite images. ... The rain could not extinguish every fire, but it helped reduce the numbers.
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All Bushfires Extinguished In Australia's Hardest-Hit New South Wales, Officials Say It's the first time since July that the state has been fire-free. "That's more than 240 days of fire activity" across the country's most populous state, New South Wales Rural Fire Service said.
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A state of disaster was declared for East Gippsland. Significant fires occurred in the Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island in South Australia and parts of the ACT. Moderately affected areas were south-eastern Queensland and areas of south-western Western Australia, with a few areas in Tasmania being mildly impacted.
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Paul Read, a lecturer and natural disasters expert at Monash University, wrote in research published last November that in general, just under 90% of Australian bushfires were caused by human activity, which includes deliberate arson, carelessness or recklessness.
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Named deserts of Australia cover 1,371,000 square kilometres (529,000 sq mi), or 18% of the Australian mainland. However, approximately 35% of the Australian continent receives so little rain it is effectively desert.
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The wildfires in Australia have burned a massive expanse of land. ... That's 5,000 square miles (an area about the size of Connecticut), more than the area of land that burned during 2019's devastating Amazon rainforest fires and 80 times larger than the total area burned in the 2019 California wildfires.
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More than 20% of Australia's forests burned during the summer's bushfire catastrophe, a proportion scientists believe is unprecedented globally, according to new research.
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Fire officials in Australia are celebrating a landmark moment, saying that for the first time in what has been a horrendous wildfire season, every fire in hard-hit New South Wales is now under control. ... "Not all fires are out," Rogers added, noting that some fires are burning in the state's far south.
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Since September, at least 27 million acres of Australia have burned in one of the country's worst fire seasons on record. ... Australia's bushfires have released 400 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
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Area affected by fire in New South Wales 5.4 million hectares (7%) of NSW has been affected by the fires. The severity of fire within this total area varies. 37% of the national park estate has been affected.
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Where are the fires? Every state and territory in Australia has experienced fires this summer. But the biggest fires burn along stretches of the eastern and southern coast, where most of the population lives. This includes areas around Sydney and Adelaide.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Wildfires that began in September, consumed millions of acres of forest and burned through beachside towns and suburbs are finally out in most of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, emergency services said Friday.
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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.