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"It may come as a surprise to hear 2023 was Australia’s biggest bushfire season
in more than a decade. Fires burned across an area eight times as big as the
2019–20 Black Summer bushfires that tore through 10 million hectares in
southeast Australia.
My research shows the 2023 fires burned more than 84 million hectares of desert
and savannah in northern Australia. This is larger than the whole of New South
Wales, or more than three times the size of the United Kingdom. The scale of
these fires is hard to comprehend.
The speed at which these fires spread was also incredible. In just a few weeks
of September and October, more than 18 million hectares burned across the
Barkly, Tanami and Great Sandy Deserts of the Northern Territory and Western
Australia.
I presented this research into the 2023 fires at the International Fire
Behaviour and Fuels Conference this month in Canberra. I described the scale of
these fires, why they occurred, and how fires could be better managed to help
protect remote but ecologically and culturally important regions of Australia."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
