The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Bushfires

AUSTRALIA’S APOCALYPTIC BUSHFIRES earlier this year weren’t just unprecedented in their scale and ferocity—they weren’t even supposed to be possible yet. Over the past 20 years, the average percentage of Australia’s “temperate broadleaf and mixed” forests—lots of eucalyptus, basically—that burned each year was 1 percent. During the 2019-2020 fire season, that figure was 21 percent, the kind of catastrophe that models didn’t predict climate change could spawn until the next century.

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/the-terrible-consequences-of-australias-uber-bushfires/

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