SYDNEY (AP) — Three Americans died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, officials said. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the deaths and crash in comments to reporters as Australia attempts to deal with an unprecedented […]
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David Attenborough calls Australia’s bushfires ‘the moment of crisis’ to address climate change
SYDNEY, 20 JANUARY 2020 (THE GUARDIAN) — Sir David Attenborough has said it is “palpable nonsense” to suggest that Australia’s bushfire crisis has nothing to do with climate change as he warned “the moment of crisis” has arrived. The 93-year-old British naturalist made the direct link between the ongoing bushfires and climate change during an […]
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Australia Bush Fire Crisis Fundraiser
Today the Office of the President and The Red Cross Society will be having a relief fundraiser at 9am-5pm for the Australian victims and communities devastated by the Australia Bushfires on going since November 2019. With 3000 homes destroyed and 28 deaths and more than 15 million hectares of land that continues to burn, billions […]
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Australia firefighters save world’s only rare dinosaur trees
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a […]
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Australia turns from defense to offense in wildfire battle
BODALLA, Australia — Crews battling Australia’s wildfires said Sunday that they have been able to turn from defense to offense for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather. Dale McLean, who is helping manage the response to a fire near the town of Bodalla in New South Wales state, was […]
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Fijian Military support to bushfire emergency response
Australia is deeply grateful for Fiji’s generous offer to support Australia’s emergency bushfire response through the provision of troops from the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. Australia is currently facing an unprecedented national disaster as bushfires continue to sweep across large parts of NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Minister for Defence, Senator Linda Reynolds […]