Forest Fire (20470 ha) in Australia 23 Oct 2021

Event summary

This forest fire can have a low humanitarian impact based on the and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID WF 1002754
Countries: Australia
Start Date - Last detection*: 23 Oct 2021 - 28 Oct 2021
Duration (days): 5
People affected: 0 in the burned area
Burned area: 20470 ha
More Info: Global Wildfire Information System

*(Last detection of the thermal anomaly of the fire)

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 56 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Produzione mondiale di vino ai minimi storici2021-11-05T19:59+0100.

Sulla base delle informazioni raccolte in 28 paesi che rappresentano l’85% della produzione mondiale nel 2020, la produzione mondiale di vino 2021 (esclusi succhi e mosti) è stimata tra 247,1 e 253,5 Mio hl, ossia 250,3 Mio hl al centro del
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Brighton academic helps Save The Children make COP26 photos2021-11-05T08:02+0100.

A DOCTOR has helped create images to document the stories of children and families on the frontline of the climate crisis. University of Brighton's Dr Marcus Dymond helped create the pictures as part of the Save The Children campaign for th
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Laying low might have saved ground critters from dino-killing asteroid2021-11-03T19:26+0100.

A new study suggests that ground-dwelling and semi-arboreal mammals were better able to survive a mass extinction 66 million years ago than tree-dwelling mammals, due to the global devastation of forests that followed the Chicxulub asteroid
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Fire rages more intensely due to climate change2021-11-01T13:53+0100.

N After more than three months, the “Dixie Fire” finally went out on Monday. Named for a road it ran along, it was the second largest forest fire in California on record. Its flames have burned a scar of almost 4,000 square kilometers into
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (27), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JRC (1),