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A new team will work to predict heatwaves across Australia as extreme temperatures become increasingly prevalent.
A report has found that climate change will increase the intensity of heat in Brisbane, making life more challenging and dangerous within the next three decades.
Cities around the world are sinking for a range of reasons but they share in common a lack of preparedness and a pattern of unsustainable urbanisation. Urban designers can enhance a city's resilience by structurally and fundamentally changing their development plans. Crucially, designers must do this through a decentralised process.
One of the country's leading bushfire experts warns Australia needs to prepare for the threat of year-round bushfires. While there are only currently two fire seasons in Australia, prolonged droughts are increasing fire risks, and New South Wales authorities even extended this year's fire danger period for a wide area of the state.
New research has revealed that green roofs carry many benefits for Australian cities, including flood prevention through absorption of rainfall, as well as decreased heating and cooling costs. Despite these benefits, government incentives are needed to boost implementation and progress has been slow.
Australian authorities are working to get on top of a "growing backlog" of prescribed burns, following warnings in a confidential report about funding issues and the increased risk of severe fires in the Canberra region. Over the past four years only 45 per cent of the area planned for prescribed burning — amounting to 13,009 hectares — had been achieved.
A new virtual reality project which puts residents through a "searing" bushfire experience has the potential to be used as a learning tool for more of Australia's natural hazards. The scenario replicates fire conditions and puts people under pressure to put an emergency plan into action.
As Papua New Guinea undergoes a rapid period of urbanisation, there are fears buildings are not being constructed to a standard that can survive strong earthquakes — potentially leading to large numbers of casualties. More than 125 people are estimated to have died in a magnitude-7.5 earthquake on February 26, which struck the country's remote highlands region.
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