Australia’s recent extreme wildfires burned 5.8 million hectares of forest, destroying about one fifth of the forest biome in eastern Australia over four months
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2234698-australia-bush-fires-burned-a-globally-unprecedented-area-of-forest/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home