Israel calls for international help as wildfires erupt near Jerusalem
By Matthew Doran
Dry and windy conditions fanned the flames, forcing motorists on the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to abandon their cars and run for their lives.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/israel-fires/105236820
‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’
"We are now on track to a three-degree world, which is still a world we absolutely do not want to live in...Capitalism as we know it now would be unviable. We are on track to tear it down by accident." Climatologist Friederike Otto
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/19/climatologist-friederike-otto-the-more-unequal-the-society-is-the-more-severe-the-climate-disaster
#ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #disasters #insurance #inequality #ClimateCrisis #floods #bushfires #habitability
Debate rages over push to declare buffel grass a weed of national significance
"A pasture grass providing benefits as feed for livestock is not considered a weed."
End of debate.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-20/graziers-and-environmentalists-clash-over-buffel-grass/105145268
#biodiversity #monoculture #livestock #cattle #lobby #SettlerSociety #weeds #bushfires
Airborne Hazards
Smoke pollution from pile burning, bushfires and burn pits
Push for Australia to recognise toxic burn pits in Afghanistan as cause of cancer in soldiers >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/burn-pits-afghanistan-iraq-causing-adf-soldiers-cancer/105004910
Airborne Hazards and Burn Pit Exposures (US)
"Open air pits used to burn several waste products, including, but not limited to: chemicals, paint, medical and human waste, metal/aluminum cans, munitions, petroleum and lubricant products, plastics and Styrofoam, rubber, wood, and food waste."
List of illnesses from airborne hazards and burn pit exposures >>
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/burnpits/
Pile burning in rural NSW
"Burning of cut and stacked vegetation is referred to as a pile burn." The piles often also contain waste materials. >>
https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/13323/Standards-for-Pile-Burning-V2.pdf
Black Summer bushfire smoke
"Before summer's end, 33 people had lost their lives, more than 3,000 homes had been destroyed, and more than 17 million hectares of land had been burnt, devastating lives and regional economies. Many cities and towns were blanketed in smoke with air quality ranking amongst the worst in the world.">>
https://www.apsc.gov.au/state-service/state-service-report-2019-20/chapter-1-commitment-service/black-summer
Greater gliders' spectacular recovery after bushfires https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/greater-glider-population-booms-after-blue-mountain-bushfires/105003914
"Endangered #GreaterGliders in part of the southern #BlueMountains have made a spectacular recovery after the black summer #bushfires in 2019-20... the #marsupials' numbers are 45% higher than were before the fires began in 2019... Greater gliders are like #koalas. They feed exclusively on #eucalypt foliage... there's been a lot of new eucalypt foliage for them to feed on"
Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks
"This paper studies how the relations between nature and society are constructed in disaster governance frameworks. Dominant disaster governance frameworks present nature and society as separate realms, and the organisation of society is increasingly seen as the key cause of hazards and disasters. Disaster impacts are similarly framed around adverse societal consequences, while other-than-human nature is merely the background across which disasters unfold, as property lost, or a means of disaster governance. Although the centrality of human impacts is troubled when biodiversity or a disaster flagship species is threatened, neither situation challenges the nature–society dualism embedded in dominant disaster governance frameworks. The attention and resources of disaster governance target the societal side of nature–society dualism. This study finds, though, that in peripheries characterised by remoteness from centres of power, a sparse human population, and large spaces of other-than-human nature, the vulnerabilities facing humans and other-than-human nature risk being ungoverned."
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Meriläinen, E. (2025). Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks. Disasters, 49(2), e12678. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12678
#disasters #NaturalDisasters #governance #property #tourism #NSW #remoteness #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #acceleration #climate #Bushfires #floods #cyclone #FirstResponders #trauma #nature #biodiversity #forests #NSWLogging #roads #koalas #deforestation #OtherThanHumanNature #NatureSocietyDualism #peripheries #vulnerability
ADVICE: Sandstone Caves fire (Warrumbungle LGA)
Firefighters continue work to contain a bush fire burning in the vicinity of the Newell Highway between Coonabarabran and Narrabri. The fire, which is more than 1,900 hectares in size, is burning in remote bushland within the Pilliga Nature Reserve. The Newell Highway remains closed with diversions via the Oxley and Kamilaroi highways.
With hot and dry conditions forecast to continue over coming days, residents in the area are urged to stay up to date via the Hazards Near Me app and RFS website: www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fnm
#Australien muss seine #Siedlungsplanung besser an zunehmende #Naturkatastrophen anpassen. 
Eine neue Studie fordert bessere Integration von #Wohnungsbau, #Katastrophenschutz und #Stadtplanung. Wichtige Maßnahmen dafür: keine Neubauten in #Hochrisikogebieten, mehr #Resilienz in bestehenden Wohngebieten und klare Strategien für Umsiedlungen. 
It was 32° Celsius in my bedroom when I last looked after 11pm last night.
There must have been some winds around as I slept, as #SES crews are around town clearing branches & trees from the roads.
The local #firies are at the fire station, having breakfast & waiting to see what the day brings. (There were 2 small #bushfires yesterday evening about 9km’s from me).
Prescribed burn in the the Valley of the Giants gone wrong
Save the tourist infrastructure not the national park?
"A plan to protect tourist infrastructure has resulted in an estimated 180 large trees falling over. Western Australian authorities say the planned burn was carried out east of the Valley of the Giants precinct to protect visitor infrastructure. While the tourist hub was untouched, conservationists say the fire has been "catastrophic" for a nearby section of bushland, and the outcome should have been predicted."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/popular-aussie-national-park-too-dangerous-to-enter-after-botched-project-053459736.html
The Dorrigo Arc Rainforest Centre in Dorrigo National Park tourist "upgrade".
Dorrigo Escarpment great walk review of environmental factors: public consultation
Have your say on the review of environmental factors
until Monday 24 February 2025.
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https://www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/parks-reserves-and-protected-areas/park-management/community-engagement/walking-tracks-and-trails-in-national-parks/dorrigo-great-walk/dorrigo-escarpment-great-walk-review-environmental-factors
#tourism #infrastructure #clutter #Dorrigo #rainforest #systemic #failure #values #bushfires #ControlledBurn #NationalParks
I'm in Devonport today, on the north coast, and even the sea breeze can't blow away the taste of smoke in the air.
#tasmania #lutruwita #fire #bushfires #climatechange #climate
The quiet catastrophe unfolding in outback #Australia after spread of invasive species https://au.news.yahoo.com/the-quiet-catastrophe-unfolding-in-outback-australia-after-spread-of-invasive-species-005659161.html
Smoke haze in Adelaide from bushfire 700 kms away
#Australia #summersunday #bushfires
What's going on?
Why does there appear to be a #blackout on any information about the #bushfires in the Western District of Victoria?
Nothing on @TheGuardian
Nothing on @theage
The last update on @ABC "news" website was 11 hours ago.
What gives??
The fires are obviously still going, according to Emergency Vic: https://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#
There now appears to be a fair bit of rainfall over the Victorian #bushfires areas.
Can anyone confirm?
#Grampians #HallsGap
It's now NINE HOURS since the @ABC news website updated any information about the #bushfires raging in Western Victoria.
Meant to be our "emergency broadcaster".
The @ABC used to be a bastion of up-to-date emergency information.
Western Victoria currently has horrific fires burning in very high temperatures.
This is the last update on the ABC News website - 5 hours ago.
While the #Grampians and #LittleDesert in Victoria are currently having terrible #bushfires take a look at Apple Maps satellite image of #Ngarkat Conservation Park across the border here in #southaustralia
Are these artifacts of the imaging, underlying #geology or scars from past fires? 
The #bushfires in the Grampians region over the past weeks, have now burnt just under 100,000 hectares. Here is what that looks like, placed over a map of Melbourne.
