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Rural Fire Service crews engage in property protection of a number of homes along the Old Hume Highway near Tahmoor, New South Wales
AUSTRALIA broke its own heat record for the second day in a row this week as uncontrolled wildfires continued to burn across New South Wales and Sydney risked being engulfed in toxic fumes.
The average national maximum temperature reached 41.9°C on Wednesday, a full degree higher than Tuesday’s record-breaking number, the Bureau of Meteorology said today.
Hundreds of school kids and their parents gathered outside Prime Minister Scot Morrison’s house in Kirribilli, Sydney today while he was away on holiday to protest against the government’s inaction on the worsening climate crisis.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
