2020 was Earth’s hottest year in the 140-year record, effectively tying 2016, the previous record-holder. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/2020-tied-for-warmest-global-year-on-record…
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Rare herb devastated by Australian bush fires saved by seed bank
One of the largely unnoticed victims of the Australian bushfires earlier this year was clover glycine (Glycine latrobeana), a rare pea endemic to South Australia that has now been restored thanks to seeds kept at Kew Gardens Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238643-rare-herb-devastated-by-australian-bush-fires-saved-by-seed-bank/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest
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 Source: 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…
Australia’s Wildfires Have Created More Emissions Than 116 Nations
“The wildfires raging along Australia’s eastern coast have already pumped around 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,” reports MIT’s Technology Review, “further fueling the climate change that’s already intensifying the nation’s fires.” That’s more than the total combined annual emissions of the 116 lowest-emitting countries, and nine times the amount produced during California’s record-setting 2018 fire season….