Enormous 'Megafire' In Australia Engulfs 1.5 Million Acres
Source: NPR
A pair of massive bushfires in southeastern Australia has merged into a "megafire" engulfing some 2,300 square miles a single blaze more than three times as large as any known fire in California.
The merged fire, which straddles the country's most populous states of New South Wales and Victoria, measures nearly 1.5 million acres, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. It is just one of some 135 bushfires in Australia's southeast that have claimed the lives of at least 26 people, killed more than a billion animals and damaged or destroyed nearly 3,000 homes.
Since September, the unprecedented bushfires have swept through an area larger than Massachusetts and New Hampshire combined.
NASA has released an animation showing how smoke from the fires has reached the lower stratosphere and traveled as far away as Chile.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795169417/enormous-mega-fire-in-australia-engulfs-1-5-million-acres
I didn't think this could get any worse!
JudyM
(29,265 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)IcyPeas
(21,901 posts)must feel like a hopeless job at this point. neverending.
and the images of all the animals just breaks my heart.
peacebuzzard
(5,180 posts)I have been thinking of this devastation non-stop. It is live. It is happening now.
OMG OMG ..... Just a matter of a few Centigrades, Fahrenheits is destroying the delicate balance of the once beautiful earth.
Al Gore warned us. The math confirmed it. We are beyond the tipping point.