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Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze

Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Ross Bradstock

Last week saw an unprecedented outbreak of large, intense fires stretching from the mid-north coast of New South Wales into central Queensland.

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Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse?

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Rachael Nolan

The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season’s unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity this summer: entire hillsides of trees turned from green to brown.

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