| We've just heard about lignotubers for example, which allow eucalypts to continue to grow even after a bushfire. |
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| The parklike understory turned into rank undergrowth, and the inevitable result was a bushfire that destroyed all the old-growth, hollow trees. |
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| The bushfire season has started early this year and local shires are already in total fire ban status. |
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| It is a wide-ranging inquiry looking at all aspects of the bushfire hazard situation in Australia. |
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| The ice cap is melting, the polar bears are doomed, Australia is looking at a year-round bushfire season, and still they drive on. |
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| And Australians are now looking to technology to help reduce bushfire impact in rural communities. |
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| But he said the report showed that periods of extreme heat were becoming more common, which was leading to severe bushfire conditions. |
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| The New Caledonian government has again hired two large helicopters to assist the country during the bushfire season. |
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| Before setting out on a journey, inform yourself of bushfire risks through TV, radio and newspapers reports. |
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| We then played the bushfire game to show them how the virus can develop and spread throughout the world. |
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| Following one of its worst bushfire seasons to date, the state of Victoria endured torrential rains and massive flooding. |
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| Preparations for the 2007-2008 bushfire season are well underway, including a Victoria Police bushfire briefing scheduled for October. |
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| Notice signs for bushfire control have been produced and distributed to the local communities. |
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| In savanna regions and other regions with a long dry spell, the danger of seasonal bushfire might cause problems in setting up a proper apiary. |
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| Generally, very few ideas conceived in the aftermath of bushfires have been converted into bushfire protection technologies. |
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| As soon as Jesus died, the life of God started flowing and spreading as fast as a bushfire. |
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| Mr Westra van Holthe used today s launch to present 3 new grassfire units to Territory bushfire volunteer brigades. |
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| In the Australian context, vulnerability and exposure to bushfire can be jointly parameterized by a simple function of distance from the nearest bushland. |
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| Steffen said the trends of a hotter and drier climate meant bushfire season in southern WA was stretching into spring and autumn, narrowing the window for fire management authorities to safely conduct prescribed burns. |
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| Mr Abbott also denies a quarter of a century of science showing the link between global warming and the increased risk of bushfire in Australia, as does his environment minister Greg Hunt. |
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| Western Australia will need twice as many firefighters in 2030 to cope with increased bushfire risks caused by climate change, a report by the Climate Council has found. |
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| That's the area that burned in the 90,000 hectare Northcliffe bushfire three weeks ago, which firefighters told Guardian Australia was the biggest in WA's recent history. |
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| It can become a death trap for people caught in the path of a bushfire. |
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| Tools such as the bushfire game, the flotilla of hope and the living metaphor should be adapted to the target group, which is that of street children. |
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| At the frontline of bushfire fighting, the helicopter, produced by the U. S. company Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated, is hired each summer by Australian state governments to assist in their protection efforts. |
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| The State of Victoria, which lies in the southeast corner of Australia, experienced one of its most significant, long-lasting and widespread bushfire seasons last year. |
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| So, in a world of video-playing iPods, mass-printable thin-film polymer solar cells and nanoparticles for targeted cancer treatment, what technologies are being developed for bushfire protection? |
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| The Group comprises attorneys in Griffith Hack's Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane offices with experience in protecting and commercializing bushfire technologies. |
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| When a bushfire broke out, he was again injured, sustaining second degree burns on his legs, front torso, lips, left hand and right forearm. |
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| Extreme bushfire danger ratings are expected in South West, Mallee, Wimmera, North Central and Central regions this weekend. |
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| Exercise Connect and this new technology come as the bushfire season has begun with an early and busy start. |
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| The former gardener has been charged with arson causing death and intentionally lighting a bushfire. |
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| Firefighters have managed to contain the bushfire but remained on alert for more fires as extremely dry weather conditions persist. |
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| Police said a firefighting crew was trapped by a bushfire on Friday at Dunalley, where there are fears that a man may have died in the blaze. |
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| A body was found in the Grampians National Park in Victoria's Grampians region, 235 km west of Melbourne, the person died as a result of bushfire, according to local police. |
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| Testing at the Kilmore site shows the REFCL technology can reduce by ten-times the likelihood of a bushfire starting from a high voltage powerline fault. |
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| Sound Relief is a benefit concert for victims of the Victorian Bushfire Crisis and the Queensland Floods. |
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| The ACT Emergency Services Agency and its CBR Bushfire Ready campaign has today been announced a winner of an ACT Resilient Australia Award in the Government category. |
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