A Contemporary Hazard - Australian Bushfires - 2019-2020 - Articles

Spatial dimensions and nature of a contemporary ecological hazard
- Sydney temperatures pass 41C as firefighters injured, homes destroyed, state of emergency declared
- Bushfire survival supersedes Christmas plans as firefighters battle infernos
- Western Australia bushfire out of control as temperatures expected to surge above 40C
- What we know so far about the Australian bushfires crisis on New Year's Eve
- Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfire crisis
- Australia wildfires: Blazes merge into massive inferno as experts warn species will go extinct
​- A timeline of the ring of fire around NSW, Victoria and the ACT.
- Aerial footage shows bushfires raging in the Australian state of Victoria
- "Uncharted territory": Berejiklian says fire crisis in unprecedented.
​- Two fires have been upgraded to an emergency level as the state looks at a horror afternoon.

Characteristics of the natural environment, including the physical processes and cycles influencing the nature and occurrence of the hazard 
- When bushfires make their own weather
- Australian firefighters warn of uncontrollable blazes as conditions worsen​
- NSW bushfires surround Sydney but conditions ease for now
- Winds and high temperatures increase fire danger across southern NSW
- Some say we’ve seen bushfires worse than this before. But they’re ignoring a few key facts
- When bushfires make their own weather.
- Intense "firestorms" forming from Australia's deadly wildfires.
- Supercell bushfire thunderstorms, tornadoes, fire-whirls and other deadly fires that spin.
- The bushfires in Australia are so big they're generating their own weather - "pyrocumulonimbus" thunderstorms that can start more fires.

Human–environment interactions and evidence of change, including: 
The contribution of human activities to hazard events
- How humans kicked off the Pyrocene, a new ‘age of fire’

​Preparedness
Full List of Fire and Emergency Chiefs' recommendations to the Federal Government.
A load of rubbish: Greg Mullins says he wants a more proactive approach to fires and climate change
Prescribed burning: what is it and will more reduce bushfire risks?

​Change in relation to climate
- Weather disasters cost $150bn in 2020, revealing impact of climate change – report
- Climate change is already here: major scientific report
- Rising levels of carbon dioxide increasing extreme weather events in Australia, report finds 
- Frequent extreme bushfires are our new reality: We need to learn how to live with smoke-filled air
- The facts about climate change and bushfires
​- Here’s why Australia is having a cataclysmic wildfire season
- The facts about bushfires and climate change
- Experts warn extreme bushfire weather risk growing
- Climate change fueled the Australia fires. Now those fires are fueling climate change.
- BBC on Australian bushfires
- Weirs continued to flow through drought and fires
- This is not normal: Explaining Bushfires and Climate Change
- Bushfire survival supersedes Christmas plans as firefighters battle infernos
- How to monitor the bushfires raging across Australia.
- Explainer: What are the underlying causes of Australia's shocking bushfire season
- Bureau of Meteorology chart shows how temperatures have soared in Australia in the past century

Challenges, opportunities, and responses, including:
Changes to natural processes, systems and/or environments
- Endangered corroborree frogs survive bushfires
- Water catchments are covered in bushfire ash, what will happen when it rains?
- NSW endures longest spell of air pollution on record as bushfires flare near Sydney
- The big smoke: how bushfires cast a pall over the Australian summer
- Huge areas of national parks, heritage locations hit by bushfires
- Number Of Animals Feared Dead In Australia’s Wildfires Soars To Over 1 Billion
- We need to talk about the impact the bushfires are having on insects
- 'It’s huge': Fears 80 per cent of NSW’s iconic Blue Mountains lost to bushfires
- Hundreds of thousands of fish dead in NSW as bushfire ash washed into river
- Native plants can flourish after bushfire, but there’s only so much hardship they can take
- A season in hell: bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction
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Impacts on people and communities
- Bushfire smoke and climate inertia dents Sydney's reputation
​- Australian wildfires threaten Sydney water supplies
- Nation counts cost of Australian blazes after communities devastated – as it happened
- Bushfire death toll rises as fires sweep across South Australia and NSW
- NSW endures longest spell of air pollution on record as bushfires flare near Sydney
​- Counting the cost of Australia's bushfires
- Sydney's drinking water could be polluted by bushfire ash in Warragamba Dam catchment, expert says
- Homes believed lost in NSW 'mega blaze' as firefighters tackle 70-metre flames in windy conditions
- Sydney smoke at its 'worst ever' with air pollution in some areas 12 times 'hazardous' threshold
- 'Not a good look': Bushfire smoke threatens to pollute Sydney's tourist image
- Volunteers struggling to cope with post-traumatic stress as bushfires rage on
- 'We've lost our beautiful town': Mogo residents flee as bushfire rages up NSW south coast
- Australia's raging fires will create big problems for fresh drinking water
​- NSW and Canberra fires: more homes reported lost as wind and thunderstorms hit
- Despair and destruction in Cobargo: 'Most people are running dead'
- Grave fears held for hundreds of important NSW south coast Indigenous sites
- Australia's bushfire smoke will do a full lap of the earth: NASA

Risk-management policies, procedures and practices at a range of scales, eg prevention, mitigation, preparedness and resilience-building
- Australia faces 'massive' rethink to prepare for long-term bushfires and air pollution
​- Aboriginal fire management – part of the solution to destructive bushfires
- Hazard reduction burns are not a 'panacea' for bushfire risk, RFS boss says
- Factcheck: are national parks 'locked up' and more vulnerable to bushfires?
- Government buried climate risk action plan
- ​How First Australians' ancient knowledge can help us survive the bushfires of the future
- Hazard reduction burn benefits undercut by weather, costs
- ‘It's miraculous’: Owners say cultural burning saved their property
- Fivefold increase in funding for hazard reduction burns needed, experts warn
- Bushfires Hazard Reduction and backburning

Varying perspectives
- Yes, Prime Minister, it is a national disaster and we need a frank discussion
- I am a volunteer firefighter. Yes, we 'want to be here', Scott Morrison – but there are limits
- Australia's lungs have collapsed and Generation X needs to take part of the blame
- Bushfire survival stories emerge from New Year's Eve blazes in Victoria's east
- Morrison is now counting the cost of climate denialism
- Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis
- There is no strong, resilient Australia without deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions
- Behind the smokescreen, the Coalition's stance on climate change hasn't changed at all
​- Prime Minister slaps down NSW Environment Minister over climate change comments
- 'Nonsense': David Attenborough highlights problem behind bushfire crisis


The effectiveness of people and organisations in managing ONE contemporary hazard event at a selected place
- ​Hawaiian-themed mural of Scott Morrison pops up in Sydney
​- 'Hugely disappointed' emergency chiefs to hold bushfire summit with or without PM
- 'The government has abandoned its own people': Bushfire evacuees call for climate action​
- Dam levels reach two-year high, RFS declares all fires now contained
​- ​Fire near Port Macquarie extinguished after 210 days
- 'We're all just waiting': NSW south coast residents still in limbo three months after bushfires​
- Post-bushfire logging makes a bad situation even worse, but the industry is ignoring the science
- Watching our politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu

Skills
- Mapping Australia’s Bushfires​