The return of heatwaves and bushfires to the news pages has brought fresh warnings that Australians who live in fire-prone zones still don’t fully understand the risk they are running. Deadly fires in…
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For a firefighter, knowing when it’s time to evacuate can be the difference between life and death. But that can be a difficult call to make when you’re trying to protect life, property and resources while…
News images of traumatised homeowners huddled in front of the ashes of their homes have become increasingly familiar in recent years. But the question has to be asked - why are we so often surprised when…
After the early onset of the 2013-14 bushfire season, it is worth reviewing which homes are more likely to be left standing when the fires inevitably return. One of the most important factors to note is…
Australians have always had to live with bushfires - but climate change is driving that fire danger even higher. And we’re not talking about a distant threat to future generations. According to real observations…
You do not find many climate change sceptics on the end of [fire] hoses anymore… They are dealing with increasing numbers of fires, increasing rainfall events, increasing storm events. – A senior Victorian…
Look at satellite images from Southeast Asia this week and you will see large areas of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore blanketed by dense plumes of smoke. These smoke plumes have severely degraded ground-level…
Forest activist Miranda Gibson’s 15-month stay up a giant eucalypt has been interrupted by bushfire. Meanwhile Tasmania’s forestry peace deal, now being considered in the state’s upper house, has drawn…
Fire and biodiversity have a complex relationship in northern Australia. Tim Flannery and others blame the current northern biodiversity crisis, at least in part, on changed fire regimes. Improving fire…
In the high country of Victoria, firefighters are presently battling a large bushfire that is moving through the forests south of Harrietville and past the second highest mountain in Victoria, Mt. Feathertop…
At this time of year, each year - the bushfire season - the complex nature of human behaviour hits home. Bushfires are a terrible event. The environmental destruction, the loss of property and sometimes…
Conservationists should take heart that Australia is finally waking up to the biodiversity crisis in Australia’s north. It is an urgent problem: right now, a diverse assortment of our small mammals – bandicoots…
We’ve all seen footage of out-of-control bushfires sweeping the Australian landscape, burning out hectares of native forest in their wake. But you might not have heard of a fire tornado, let alone seen…
Engineers are aiming to help fire fighters investigate and battle dangerous blazes via new computer modelling of house fires…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is co-ordinating a new venture to tackle short-lived global warming agents such as black carbon. Should we be paying more attention to black carbon? Yes…
The evidence for a rapid shift in state of the terrestrial atmosphere-ocean system over the last two centuries (see figure 1) requires a deep time perspective, beyond events of the day. Tracing the original…
Wooden power poles are at fire risk from leaked current. Current leakage occurs when the the insulator degrades due to salt…
Researchers have discovered a new bushfire phenomenon called “fire channelling” that occurs only on steep slopes facing away…
A University of Tasmania scientists has suggested that introducing elephants, rhinoceros and Komodo dragons in mainland Australia…
Scientists are increasingly expected to engage with the media to communicate their findings. My research leads me to believe Hobart is at risk from a severe bushfire disaster – but what are my responsibilities…
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior research fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Professor in Digital Construction and Fire Engineering, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University