Video shows a woman rescuing a koala from an Australian bushfire in 2019, not LA in 2025
As wildfires ravaged thousands of acres across Los Angeles neighborhoods in early 2025, viral posts claimed to show a ...
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Up to 40% of bushfires in parts of Australia are deliberately lit. But we're not doing enough to prevent them
This is not an isolated example. About 28% of bushfires in south-east Australia are deliberately lit. The figure rises to 40% if we're only talking about fires with a known cause. These figures ...
As the Black Summer megafires neared, people rallied to save wildlife and domestic animals. But it came at a real cost
As the 2019–2020 megafires took hold across eastern Australia, many of us reeled at the sight of animals trying and often ...
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"1,25 billion animals dead". Can Australian wildlife recover from the bushfires?
WWF Australia warned. Some animals would have managed to escape, explained Dr. Crosta. However the presence of human barriers such as fences would have stopped them and this also needs to be ...
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Australia bushfires: fake news on the rise during crisis
The “bushfire emergency gave them the opportunity to jump on board and drag Australia onto the world stage of global disinformation.” ...
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Los Angeles bushfires: Australian eucalyptus trees blamed for disaster as experts weigh in
Eucalyptus trees – native to Australia – were seen as an easy solution to a critical shortage of wood brought on by the economic boom. Opportunistic Aussies “imported and planted them in ...
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Much of Australia enjoys the same Mediterranean climate as LA. When it comes to bushfires, that doesn’t bode well
So let’s look at them in more detail ... During an El Niño, Australia typically becomes hotter and drier, and the bushfire risk increases. We saw this with the Black Summer fires in 2019 ...