Tag: bushfires

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Australia warned to prepare for another wave of evacuations as temperatures again begin to rise

  

  Australian authorities warned people on Wednesday to prepare for another wave of evacuations as temperatures in the country's southeast began to rise after a days-long cool spell, bringing the danger of revitalized blazes.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Australian bushfires smoke reaches Uruguay and the South of Brazil

  

  Smoke from bushfires raging across Australia reached Brazil on Tuesday, an arm of the National Institute for Space Research said on Twitter. Referring to satellite images, the agency's Department of Remote Sensing said the smoke had arrived in Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Australia cloud smoke reaches Chile, Argentina and is expected in Uruguay

  

  The cloud of smoke caused by raging bushfires in Australia has been spotted more than 12,000km away in Chile and Argentina, weather authorities in the South American countries said on Monday. Meteorologists in Uruguay expect the cloud in the next 24 hours.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Bushfires in Australia threaten the dairy industry; “thousands of cattle have been lost”

  

  Bushfires across Australia's east coast are set to pile on more pain for the country's dairy industry, already hurt by a prolonged drought, as processors in one of the world's largest exporters face tightening milk supplies.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Australian troops deployed to help in three states; bushfires destroyed an area the size of Ireland

  

  Reserve troops were deployed to fire-ravaged regions across three Australian states on Monday after a torrid weekend that turned swathes of land into smoldering, blackened hellscapes.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Australia on fire: thousands evacuate coastal communities; political storm brewing

  

  Thousands of tourists have been given less than 48 hours to evacuate fire-ravaged coastal communities as Australia braces for a heatwave on Saturday expected to fan deadly bushfires.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Fires in Australia threaten the water infrastructure that supplies Sydney

  

  Australian authorities said on Friday that they are focused on protecting water plants, pumping stations, pipes and other infrastructure from intense bushfires surrounding Sydney, the country's largest city. Firefighters battling the blazes for weeks received a reprieve of slightly cooler, damper conditions over Christmas, but the respite is not expected to last long.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 11:03 UTC

  Australia: “catastrophic” conditions in Greater Sydney surrounded by a ring of fire

  

  Firefighters in the Australian state of New South Wales were bracing for “catastrophic” fire conditions on Saturday as temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius and strong winds were set to fuel more than 100 fires burning across the state.

• Thursday, December 19th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Australia's inferno as heat wave worsens with temperatures of 46C

  

  While Prime Minister Scott Morrison is overseas on vacation, Australia this week experienced its hottest day on record and the heat-wave is expected to worsen, exacerbating an already unprecedented bushfire season, authorities said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 19th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Seven-day state of emergency in Australia's New South Wales state ravaged by bushfires

  

  Australian authorities declared a seven-day state of emergency in New South Wales state on Thursday as a record heatwave fanned unprecedented bushfires raging across the region.