Domestic violence can increase amid bushfires, but Australia has a poor track record of responding to it. With a hot summer ahead, authorities are warned to prepare.
The Fire to Flourish research project is reimagining Australia’s response to natural disasters, and reshaping small towns in the process.
Our ability to adapt our way out of the climate crisis will soon be beyond us unless we rapidly decarbonise to limit global warming.
Research suggests one of the greatest assets following a disaster is the people who experience them. But this asset is hugely under-utilised.
The use of air purifiers is on the rise, but the energy sector is yet to consider what the uptake might mean for household energy use and our decarbonisation goals.
Researchers are using the environmental DNA sampling method to effectively assess animal populations in bushfire-affected areas.
The lasting impacts of the recent bushfires reach far and wide. Watch A Different Lens to find out why we’re still seeing them.
What role did climate change play in Australia's devastating bushfires?
Vast amounts of satellite data gives us an unprecedented ability to map the extent and severity of fires, but we're not exploiting it – yet.
Community-based ecological restoration can aid wellbeing and resilience, and could be used to inform future bushfire plans.
For many Australians, the bushfire disaster could represent a turning point: the moment they adopt new, long-term behaviours to help nature.
The catastrophic bushfires have highlighted the connection between threats to the natural environment and the media environment, through which misinformation is spreading at a disturbing rate.
With Australia in the grip of devastating bushfires, Indigenous people must be involved in prevention strategies.
A crisis of this scale requires a willingness to generate bipartisan consensus, but the PM has struggled to put the national interest above party politics.
The peak time for heatwaves in southern Australia hasn't yet arrived. Many parts of Australia can expect heavy rains and flooding, and northern Australia's cyclone season is just gearing up.
Rather than reacting when disaster strikes, there's plenty we can do to prevent catastrophic bushfires.
The NSW and Queensland fires are unprecedented in terms of seasonality, and ominous for the summer ahead.
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