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Australian bushfires
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Australia
- In Australia: Climate
…the summer (December–February) often produces bushfires. In 1939, 71 people we killed in the “Black Friday” blaze in Victoria, and 75 individuals perished in the “Ash Wednesday” fires in Victoria and South Australia in 1983. The scale of the 2009 fires—attributed to extreme weather conditions coupled with a severe and…
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Plants on Fire
- In Plants on Fire: Plants on Fire transcript
…terms of the fires in Australia, bushfires have always been a part of the ecosystem there. You mentioned earlier there’s some other types of ecosystems in Australia that don’t historically burn; like most places, it’s a mix. So part of the reason that the fires are so, so intense and…
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