Tag: Australian Bushfires

Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday said the death toll from the country’s bushfire crisis has risen to 27. Morrison provided an update on the bushfires in a press conference at Parliament House, announcing that 2,131 homes have been destroyed and the toll is expected to rise, Xinhua reported. Fire burning across Australia’s southeast […]

Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday acknowledged that his government had made mistakes in handling the destructive bushfires sweeping the country and for which he has received heavy criticism. “There are things I could have handled on the ground much better,” Efe news quoted Morrison as saying in an interview on the state broadcaster […]

Canberra: Over three billion animals were killed or displaced during the devastating 2019-20 Australian bushfires, according to a new report issued on Tuesday. The findings meant it was one of  “worst wildlife disasters in modern history”, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which commissioned the report, the BBC reported. The mega blazes, […]

Canberra: Experts have warned that Australia’s devastating 2019-20 “Black Summer” bushfires were a “wake up call” to the extreme effects of climate change in the country. In a study published on late Thursday, a team from the Australian National University (ANU) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes warned that […]