HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IGNITED A MONSTER
S WE WENT to press, bushfires had ripped across a huge area of the country’s south-east, making it our worst-ever summer bushfire season. It was exceptional also for razing large parts of typically moist northern New South Wales and many Australian habitats that rarely experience fire and have little tolerance for it, such as rainforests, tall wet eucalypt forests, swamps and marshes.
