Aboriginal officials in Australia approved the rounding up and killing of up to 10,000 camels because of drought conditions, claiming that the thirsty camels are drinking up too much of a dwindling water supply, as CBS News reported. The officials in the sparsely populated part of the northwest corner of South Australia said in a […]
An out-of-control wildfire in the Australian state of Victoria forced thousands of people to flee towards the coast Tuesday. Residents of the town of Mallacoota hunkered down in their homes or headed for the relative safety of the beach when a siren sounded around 8 a.m., BBC News reported. Victoria’s state emergency commissioner Andrew Crisp […]
Despites calls by politicians and more than a quarter of a million signatures on an online petition to cancel Sydney’s New Years’ Eve fireworks show, city officials are pushing forward and saying the show will happen, as CNN reported. The Change.org petition now approaching 300,000 signatures asks for the money spent on the iconic fireworks […]
By Eoin Higgins Australia is on fire. The country on Saturday saw delayed flights on the second day of a national state of emergency due to raging brushfires near every major city and choked-out smoke conditions. Australian reporter Saffron Howden used a map from the Government of Western Australia to show how the blazes have […]
The bushfires that have been tearing through New South Wales and Queensland, decimating koala habitats, taxing the water supply, and choking the air since August have claimed six lives. Now, new NASA data shows that the fires have emitted 250 million tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of half thee country’s annual greenhouse gas emissions, […]
A school in Queensland, Australia sent a note home to parents asking them to send their children with extra water bottles since its water supply has run dry, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Tamborine Mountain State School, which is about 25 miles from the Gold Coast, has remained open, though it has urged […]
The brushfires raging through New South Wales have shrouded Australia’s largest city in a blanket of smoke that pushed the air quality index 12 times worse than the hazardous threshold, according to the Australia Broadcast Corporation (ABC). Still winds on Tuesday left a stagnant haze over the city so smoky, it set off fire alarms […]
New documents show that government officials for New South Wales were warned six months ago that Sydney’s water levels would reach emergency levels after the Australian summer and they should act immediately, as The Guardian reported. Officials who saw the document looked at historical trends and used the 1939 drought as a model course of […]
Lewis, the koala who stole the world’s heart when a video of his rescue from Australian wildfires went viral, has died. The koala rose to fame when Australian grandmother Toni Doherty was filmed risking her life to carry him out of the flames using the shirt off her back. Doherty named him Ellenborough Lewis after […]
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