13 Feb 2020

Australia wildfires ‘contained’ in New South Wales for first time in ‘exhausting’ fire season

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After months of battling wildfires that scorched thousands of homes and created mass evacuations in eastern Australia, officials announced Thursday that all the blazes in the New South Wales state are considered contained after recent rains. New South Wales Rural Fire Service‘s deputy commissioner … Read More
24 Jan 2019

Australia’s blistering heatwave is breaking records, killing animals en masse

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While many Canadians and Americans suffer through the depths of winter, blistering summer temperatures are wreaking havoc with Australia‘s environment, killing animals, cooking fruit and toppling decades-old heat records. Adelaide set a record for the highest temperature ever recorded in an Australian city Thursday, … Read More