why did the australian fires start?
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The fires started in various ways: some by lightning, some by human actions, including arson. However, it's the climate conditions that provide ample fuel for the fires to grow and spread. ... Much of the severe heat was accompanied by brisk winds across much of Australia, which exacerbates fire risks and spreads blazes.
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From September 2019 until March 2020, when the final fire was extinguished, Australia had one of the worst bush fires in history. ... This caused mass damage all around the country with fires in each state and territory. The east coast had widespread destruction from the mega-blaze.
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A fire needs three things: fuel, oxygen and heat. ... Sometimes, fires occur naturally, ignited by heat from the sun or a lightning strike. However, most wildfires are because of human carelessness such as arson, campfires, discarding lit cigarettes, not burning debris properly, playing with matches or fireworks.
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Bushfires are a regular feature of the Austral summer, but this season has been exceptional on several accounts. ... The immediate cause for the extreme season was the parched lands that resulted from a drought that began three years ago.
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IFAW has deployed additional responders to provide emergency support to our Australia team already responding to the deadly bushfires in Australia. For the past three months, bushfires have ravaged across New South Wales and Queensland, forcing thousands to evacuate and decimating local wildlife populations.
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1) The fires ignited amid a record-breaking heat wave The fires started in various ways: some by lightning, some by human actions, including arson. However, it's the climate conditions that provide ample fuel for the fires to grow and spread.
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Unseasonably high temperatures and drought over the last three months have contributed to the conditions that have allowed the fires to proliferate. ... And in Australia we've just experienced record high temperatures," Mark Howden, director of the Climate Change Institute at Australian National University, told Reuters.
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Send this by. Only about 1 per cent of the land burnt in NSW this bushfire season can be officially attributed to arson, and it is even less in Victoria, the ABC can reveal. The world has been shocked by the scenes of devastation as the unprecedented destruction of Australia's horror bushfire season rages on.
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Why are the fires so bad? Australia's deadly fires have been fuelled by a combination of extreme heat, prolonged drought and strong winds. The country is in the grip of a heatwave, with record-breaking temperatures over the last three months.
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The modern world has never seen anything quite like these Australia fires. About 16 million acres have burned in New South Wales and Victoria, where the crisis is centered. That's an area about the size of West Virginia. Millions more acres have burned in other parts of the country.
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Since the old Gondwana supercontinent broke up and Australia wandered north, it has increasingly been a continent informed by fire. It has the right conditions for fire — wet enough for things to grow, dry enough for them to burn. Over millennia, animals adapted, as did plants.
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The wildfires in Australia have burned a massive expanse of land. ... That's 5,000 square miles (an area about the size of Connecticut), more than the area of land that burned during 2019's devastating Amazon rainforest fires and 80 times larger than the total area burned in the 2019 California wildfires.
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Burning carbon embers thrown from train engine exhausts can also start bushfires. Campfires: Embers from campfires, and campfires that aren't properly extinguished are a bushfire hazard. ... And police have charged a juvenile with starting a Central Queensland bushfire which destroyed 14 homes this week.
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3) The bigger trend: Australia's fire season is getting longer and more dangerous. ... “There has been a long-term increase in extreme fire weather, and in the length of the fire season, across large parts of Australia,” according to the climate report. These fires may not be 100 percent attributable to climate change.
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1) The fires ignited amid a record-breaking heat wave The southeast is the most severely affected, but fires have also hit every Australian state and territory this season. The fires started in various ways: some by lightning, some by human actions, including arson. ... So did Australia's capital Canberra.
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Dozens of fires erupted in New South Wales, Australia, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency in November 2019. Fires rapidly spread across all states to become some of the most devastating on record. An area about the size of South Korea, roughly 25.5 million acres, has burned.