Australia bushfire

Canberra: Australia faces increased bushfire risk this summer with hot and dry conditions expected to persist into the new year for many locations, the fire and emergency service authorities said on Thursday. Abundant vegetation growth…
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Canberra: Australia will face possible compounding and cascading natural disasters throughout this upcoming summer season, the nation's top emergency management authority warned on Monday. Brendan Moon, Australia's Coordinator-General…
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Sydney: Heavy rains and thunderstorms on Saturday lashed parts of Australia's east coast, dousing some of the raging bushfires but bringing a new threat of flooding to some areas. There have been downpours in the states of Victoria, New…
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Sydney, Jan 17: Wide-spread thunderstorm systems moving across Australia's east coast are set to bring some much-needed relief to firefighting efforts on Friday, with even more rain predicted over the weekend. "We've got an inland…
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Sydney:  Australia's ongoing bushfire crisis has cost the nation's tourism industry A$1 billion ($690 million), official data revealed on Thursday. According to the data from the Australian Tourism Industry Council (ATIC), almost 100…
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Sydney: Australian authorities were dropping tonnes of food from helicopters for animals who were starving as a result of the destruction of their habitat due to the raging bushfires that have swept the country since September 2019. The…
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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…
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Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday announced the allocation of AU$2 billion ($1.39 billion) to a bushfire recovery fund for rebuilding areas affected by the destructive blazes over the next two years. The…
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Sydney, Jan 6: A contingent of 3,000 Australian army reservists were deployed on Monday to assist fire crews and emergency workers with evacuations and disaster recovery efforts, following a horror weekend of raging bushfires across the…
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Sydney: Hundreds of bushfires continued to rage in Australia on Saturday amid "catastrophic" conditions in the south of the country where two more deaths have been confirmed, taking the total toll to 21. The two deaths occurred on…
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