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The 2024 Texas wildfires were marked by several major fires, including the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas panhandle and part of Oklahoma. The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned an estimated 1,058,482 acres (1,653.878 sq mi; 428,352 ha) in Texas and Oklahoma and was completely contained on March 16, [ 1 ] becoming the second largest fire in US ...
Fire ecology is a scientific discipline concerned with the effects of fire on natural ecosystems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Many ecosystems, particularly prairie , savanna , chaparral and coniferous forests , have evolved with fire as an essential contributor to habitat vitality and renewal. [ 3 ]
The country has always had bushfires but in 2019, the extent and ferocity of these fires increased dramatically. [88] For the first time catastrophic bushfire conditions were declared for Greater Sydney. New South Wales and Queensland declared a state of emergency but fires were also burning in South Australia and Western Australia. [89]
State Impact Dates Impact Blue Mountains National Park: New South Wales Flinders Chase National Park: South Australia French Island National Park: Victoria 15 January 2020 [26] - Kanangra-Boyd National Park: New South Wales Kosciuszko National Park: New South Wales
The goal of the Wombat Rescue is to return all wombats to the wild, even ones that are being hand-reared by humans. Wombats are herbivores and foragers, dig burrows in which to make dens, and have ...
Measles cases continue to grow in an outbreak in west Texas, with state health officials saying Tuesday the number of confirmed infections is now up to 58.. The majority of cases (33) have been ...
Ofri Bibas Levi, the sister-in-law of Shiri Bibas, an Israeli hostage kidnaped during the Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel, holds a family picture of Bibas and one of her two boys, at Moshav Giv ...
1944 Blue Mountains bushfire New South Wales: 0 approx. 40: 0 [14] [15] November 1951 – January 1952 1951–52 bushfires Victoria 4,000,000 9,900,000 11 0 0 [16] 2 January 1955 Black Sunday bushfires: South Australia: 39,000–160,000 96,000–395,000 2 40 [b] 0 [17] [18] 30 November 1957 1957 Grose Valley bushfire, Blue Mountains New South ...