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Australia marks anniversary of deadly firestorm Melbourne (AFP) Feb 7, 2010 
Australians marked the first anniversary of devastating wildfires that killed 173 people, grieving for those who lost their lives and praying for the survivors in a national day of mourning Sunday.
The "Black Saturday" bushfires, Australia's worst natural disaster, wiped out entire towns and destroyed more than 2,000 homes as they swept through the southeastern state of Victoria. Twenty-thre ... read moreForest fire studies may give false results 
Corvallis, Ore. (UPI) Feb 1, 2009 U.S. scientists say they've determined some studies involving the impact of forest fires may have grossly overestimated the amount of carbon dioxide released. Oregon State University researchers say some past approaches to calculating the impact of forest fires have overestimated the number of live trees that burn up and the amount of CO2 that is released into the atmosphere as a result ... more
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Fresh snow misery hits eastern US
US warns China against 'stillborn' climate deal Penguin future looks perkier with marine zone: study EU ministers call for common electric car strategy Eastern US braces for more snow misery Snowbound US government freezes up on hot issues Homes evacuated as Los Angeles braces for storm Eastern US braces for fresh snow blitz Swift help urged for Haiti's crucial weather forecasters Amnesty demands halt to Vedanta's India mine plans 
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Climate change to triple Australia fire danger: report
Sydney (AFP) Jan 28, 2010Climate change could more than triple the risk of catastrophic wildfires in parts of Australia, a top environmental group warned Thursday, almost a year since savage firestorms that killed 173 people. Greenpeace warned that, without a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the frequency of severe fire danger in drought-parched southeastern Australia would grow threefold by 2050. ... more Australia floods declared natural disaster 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 4, 2010Australian authorities declared a natural disaster Monday in a southeastern farming town where raging floodwaters forced the evacuation of hundreds of people. The swollen Castlereagh River peaked at 5.14 metres (17 feet) just before midday (0100 GMT) in Coonamble, the weather bureau said, after 1,200 residents in the New South Wales town were urged to leave their homes for higher ground. ... more Australian residents urged to flee 'house-high' wildfires
Sydney (AFP) Dec 29, 2009Australian officials urged residents to evacuate a wheat farming district in the west of the country Tuesday as towering wildfires with flames higher than rooftops threatened homes. People in the Dandaragan area north of Perth were told to flee immediately as the fast-moving and out-of-control blaze, fanned by "catastrophic" conditions in Western Australia, showered embers. "Homes will b ... more Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage
Sydney (AFP) Dec 31, 2009Shocked residents returned to survey the wreckage on Thursday after Western Australia's worst wildfire in 50 years engulfed 38 homes in an isolated rural community. Emotional householders were given the all-clear to go back to Toodyay, north of Perth, where the inferno raced across thousands of hectares (acres) of scrub and farmland destroying buildings, vehicles and cattle. Emergency cr ... more |
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Australia battles wildfires as threat eases: officials
Rylstone, Australia (AFP) Nov 23, 2009Australian firefighters battled to contain scores of blazes in the country's southeast on Monday as a sharp drop in temperatures eased fears for dozens of threatened homes. About 600 firefighters backed by water-bombing aircraft were fighting 82 fires around New South Wales state, including a major inferno near the country villages of Rylstone and Kandos. Temperatures plunged to about 21 ... more Homes under threat as Australian wildfires blaze
Rylstone, Australia (AFP) Nov 22, 2009Hundreds of residents in eastern Australia were on alert Sunday as out-of-control wildfires fanned by soaring temperatures and windy conditions threatened properties, officials said. A bushfire emergency warning, the highest level of alert, has been issued for those living in the New South Wales towns of Rylstone, Kandos and Clandulla about 170 kilometres (105 miles) northwest of Sydney. ... more Fires in Spanish wetlands causing alarm 
Las Tablas De Daimiel National Park, Spain (AFP) Nov 22, 2009Columns of smoke and the acrid smell of burning peat now greet visitors to one of the largest wetland zones in Europe, where smouldering fires in the subsoil are causing alarm among environmentalists. The 2,000-hectare (5,000-acre) Tablas de Daimiel National Park began drying up in the 1960s when the water was first drained from the area so the land could be used for agriculture and to ... more Australia warns of harsh summer as residents flee fire 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 20, 2009Concerned residents abandoned their homes and fled as wildfires closed in on hundreds of suburban properties in Australia's northeast, officials said, adding there was likely worse to come. There were no forced evacuations, but officials urged anyone not prepared to protect their property to flee as flames of up to four metres (13 feet) closed in on Rockhampton city, north of Brisbane. ... more |
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