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April 2019
Australia’s colonial historical past is dotted with fires so monumental they’ve their very own names. The worst, Black Saturday, struck the state of Victoria on February 7, 2009. Fifteen separate fires scorched the state over simply two days, killing 173 individuals.
While Australia is infamous for spectacular blazes, it truly ranks under the United States, Indonesia, Canada, Portugal, and Spain relating to the financial injury attributable to wildfires over the previous century.
That’s as a result of whereas different nations argue about one of the simplest ways to deal with the difficulty, the horrors of Black Saturday led Australia to drastically change its response—one of many greatest of which was additionally probably the most fundamental: taking one other take a look at the way in which fireplace threat is rated. Read the full story.
—Bianca Nogrady
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