Severe storms are expected to bring some relief in the coming days from huge bus...
Bushfires are common during Australia’s summer months, but this fire season started unusually early, often moving quickly and unpredictably, and leaving swathes of the drought-stricken land a scorched earth.* Victoria’s Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp confirmed that a November death of a forest fire management contractor was related to bushfires, raising the state’s death toll to five and the nationwide toll to 29.
* Ambulance Victoria reported a significant increase in daily calls from people with breathing problems this week. * Globally rising temperatures may make Australia so hot and dry that the country could join the ranks of ‘climate refuges’ a U.S. climatologist and geophysicist told Reuters.
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