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Emergency centers and fire agencies work to reduce the risk of spreading the virus as the west and south-west brace for the inevitable.
The royal commission is holding three days of hearings to examine bushfire hazard reduction. Experts agreed hazard reduction burns were most effective, and most expensive, when they were targeted at protecting built assets such as homes and schools
Record-breaking rainfall has devastated communities – and with thousands displaced and more rain predicted the picture is bleak
The coronavirus complicates response to the disastrous flood that swallowed a series of small communities in mid-Michigan when an ageing dam broke.
Residents in Victorian towns at highest risk of bushfire went into the most recent bushfire season believing firefighting aircraft and vehicles would save them.
Group of former fire and emergency services leaders tell bushfire royal commission rapid detection technologies are vital
As rivers and wildflower meadows in the UK struggle to recover from repeated flooding, the ecosystems they support are collapsing.
Experts fear locusts swarm like those seen in Africa will become more common with climate change as tropical storms create favourable breeding conditions for the insects.
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