who started the australian fires?
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The bushfires are often started by natural causes such as lightning strikes, however humans are also sometimes to blame. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, New South Wales police have taken legal action against 183 people and have charged 24 people with deliberately starting bushfires this fire season.
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The devastating start to the fire season confirmed what scientists have been predicting: that Australia's bush fires will become more frequent and more intense as climate change worsens. Few if any other developed countries are as vulnerable to changing climate as Australia, according to scientific reports.
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Australia fires: British firefighters to assist with clean-up. A group of about 300 serving and retired firefighters are heading to Australia to help rebuild communities hit by bushfires.
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Where are the fires? Every state and territory in Australia has experienced fires this summer. But the biggest fires burn along stretches of the eastern and southern coast, where most of the population lives. This includes areas around Sydney and Adelaide.
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Two Australian states have declared a state of emergency as bushfires bring a "catastrophic" threat to heavily populated areas of the nation's east. At least three people are dead and thousands have been displaced by three days of dangerous weather conditions in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland.
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In 2019–20, the fire season started early with drought affecting 95 percent of the state and persistent dry and warm conditions across the state. Twelve local government areas started the Bush Fire Danger Period two months early, on 1 August 2019, and nine more started on 17 August 2019.
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In recent times most major bush fires have been started in remote areas by dry lightning. Some reports indicate that a changing climate could also be contributing to the ferocity of the 2019–20 fires with hotter, drier conditions making the country's fire season longer and much more dangerous.
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The main cause of fire ignitions of Australia's bushfires is dry lightning, essentially lightning from thunderstorms that don't produce rain.
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Australia fires were far worse than any prediction. The Australian bushfires were more catastrophic than any simulation of our changing climate predicted. This is the conclusion of researchers who described the devastation as a "fiery wake-up call for climate science".
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Record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought have fuelled a series of massive bushfires across Australia. Although recent cooler conditions and rain have brought some respite, more than 50 fires are still burning in the states of New South Wales and Victoria.
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(CNN) The Australian state of New South Wales is officially free from bushfires for the first time in more than 240 days, according to the area's fire service. Months of devastating fires in Australia left at least 28 people dead, about 3,000 homes destroyed and up to a billion animals affected.
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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. 2019 had been the hottest record year for Australia, with the bushfire season starting in June 2019.
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What causes bushfires? There are lots of possible bushfire causes. They can start naturally, when lightning strikes and ignites dry plants and trees, like the golden wattle tree. But they can also be caused by people, for example, by someone not extinguishing their campfire properly.
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With officials in New South Wales announcing Thursday that heavy rain had helped them finally extinguish or control all the state's fires that have raged this Australian summer, the country seems to be reflecting and wondering what comes next. Burned bush land on the outskirts of Bredbo, Australia, this month.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Two volunteer firefighters died on Thursday night while battling ferocious blazes in the region surrounding Sydney, prompting Australia's prime minister, Scott Morrison, to say he would cut short a family vacation to Hawaii that had enraged constituents.
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Every Wildfire In New South Wales, Australia, Is Now Under Control : NPR. Every Wildfire In New South Wales, Australia, Is Now Under Control The fires that burned for months over much of eastern Australia have finally been brought under control, helped by days of intense rain. But recovery remains a long-term effort.
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Australia fires burn through 15 million acres of land, kill at least 25 peopleThe fires in Australia's outback are even larger than the recent massive wildfires in California and the Amazon Rainforest, and shows how the effects of climate change reach all corners of the globe.