are the australia fires out yet?
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Heavy rains in New South Wales in recent days have led to hopes that all the bushfires in the Australian state could be out by the end of the week. Since Friday, parts of the fire-ravaged Australian state have experienced their heaviest rainfall in years. ... In total, 24 fires remain burning across the state.
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The Amazon fires are still raging. As the latest data shows: this is not yesterday's news. This is an ongoing crisis. The last few months have put a crucial spotlight on the fires devastating the Amazon and other species-rich habitats in Latin America.
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Research published in a special edition of Nature Climate Change focused on the bushfire crisis finds that 21% of the total area covered by Australian forests – excluding Tasmania - has burnt so far in the 2019-20 bushfire season.
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Data from satellite sources assembled by the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) World Environment Situation Room confirms that the wildfires in Australia in the last two months of 2019 and the first six weeks of 2020 were far from normal.
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From September 2019 until March 2020, when the final fire was extinguished, Australia had one of the worst bush fires in history. ... This caused mass damage all around the country with fires in each state and territory. The east coast had widespread destruction from the mega-blaze.
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That fire is now largely contained. But dozens of others are still burning in the southeastern states of New South Wales and Victoria, some out of control, despite heavy rain in some areas in recent days.
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Victoria, where fires have burned 1.2 million hectares, extended a "state of disaster" for the worst-hit areas from 2 to 11 January. Some blazes are still burning in the state and there are emergency warnings are in place. ... Three people - including one firefighter - have died as a result of the fires.
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Other major conflagrations include the 1851 Black Thursday bushfires, the 2006 December bushfires, the 1974-75 fires that affected 15% of Australia, and the ongoing 2019–20 bushfires. In January 2020, it was estimated that over 1.25 billion animals have died in the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season.
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Dozens of fires erupted in New South Wales, Australia, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency in November 2019. Fires rapidly spread across all states to become some of the most devastating on record. An area about the size of South Korea, roughly 25.5 million acres, has burned.
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Across the state, 923,000 hectares have been blackened and 39 fires are continuing to burn. Four emergency warning and two evacuation warnings remained in place this morning. ... State Control Centre spokesman Peter O'Keefe said Victorian fires had destroyed 110 properties and impacted more than 220 outbuildings.
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The modern world has never seen anything quite like these Australia fires. About 16 million acres have burned in New South Wales and Victoria, where the crisis is centered. That's an area about the size of West Virginia. Millions more acres have burned in other parts of the country.
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The fire south of Canberra is still out of control and has already burned more than 20% of the territory's landscape. However, the fires did not reach the capital's southern suburbs. Hot and windy conditions are expected to last through the weekend.
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Australia's ruinous fire season can be seen from space. NASA's satellites have spotted more than a million infrared heat signatures — telltale signs of fires — across the country since the beginning of September.
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Australia's devastating bushfire season comes to an end. ... March 31 marks the end of the 2019-20 bushfire season across southern and eastern Australia, bringing to an end the country's most devastating season on record.
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This fire season has been one of the worst in Australia's history, with at least 15 people killed, hundreds of homes destroyed and millions of acres burned. And summer is far from over. ... The hot, dry conditions that have fueled the fires are nothing new in Australia. Here's why this fire season has been so calamitous.
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Australia's fires are 46% bigger than last year's Brazilian Amazon blazes. There are at least 2 months of fire season to go. A ghost. ... Since September, bushfires have razed an estimated 25 million acres in Australia.
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(CNN) All fires burning in the Australian state of New South Wales have been declared contained for the first time this season. ... In what has been a very traumatic, exhausting and anxious bush fire season so far, for the first time this season all bush and grass fires in NSW are now contained.