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Heavy rains bring both relief and new dangers to bushfire-hit Australia

February 10, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Disasters / Accidents, Floods, Living / Lifestyle, Major News, Pictures, Precipitation, Transportation (TRBC), US, Video, Water, Water and Other Utilities (TRBC), Weather Markets / Weather, Wildfires / Forest Fires

MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years

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Bushfires, cyclone, torrential rain hit Australia’s coasts

February 9, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Disasters / Accidents, Environment, General News, Government / Politics, Nature / Wildlife, Picture available, Pictures, Pollution, Precipitation, Transportation (TRBC), United States, US, Video, Weather Markets / Weather, Wildfires / Forest Fires

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Severe bushfires burned through parts of Western Australia on Sunday, with other areas of the state dealing

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Australia celebrates as heavy rains dampen huge bushfires

February 7, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Company News, Disasters / Accidents, Europe, General News, Major News, MINING, Pictures, Precipitation, Specialty Mining and Metals (TRBC), Sweden, Transportation (TRBC), United Kingdom, US, Video, Weather Markets / Weather, Wildfires / Forest Fires

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Much of Australia’s wildfire-ravaged east coast was drenched on Friday by the biggest rainfall in almost 20

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Australia receives a bittersweet bushfires reprieve with floods, cyclone

February 6, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Disasters / Accidents, General News, Precipitation, US, Wildfires / Forest Fires

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the smouldering remnants of a bushfire near Bumbalong, New South Wales, Australia, February 2, 2020.

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‘Black summer’: Australian PM leads tribute to bushfire victims

February 4, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments American Samoa, Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Disasters / Accidents, General News, Government / Politics, Nature / Wildlife, Pictures, POLITICS, Precipitation, US, Video, Wildfires / Forest Fires

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison reacts during the bushfire condolence motion in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in

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Australia’s capital braces as hot, windy conditions fuel bushfires

February 1, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Disasters / Accidents, General News, Major News, Pictures, Precipitation, US, Video, Wildfires / Forest Fires

Smoke rises as the Big Jack Mountain fire spreads in Bega Valley, New South Wales, Australia, February 1, 2020. NSW

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Heatwave and high winds threaten to rekindle Australian wildfires

January 30, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Credit / Debt Ratings, Disasters / Accidents, Environment, General News, Government / Politics, Major News, Temperature, US, Wildfires / Forest Fires

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Large swathes of southeast Australia were bracing on Thursday for a days-long heatwave that threatens to stoke

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Heavy rains dampen fires in Australia’s Queensland state, cause flooding

January 26, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Disasters / Accidents, Droughts, Environment, Floods, General News, Nature / Wildlife, Picture available, Precipitation, US, Weather Markets / Weather, Wildfires / Forest Fires

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s bushfire-stricken state of Queensland saw heavy rainfalls on Sunday dampening some of the fires that have

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Australia mourns U.S. firefighters as probe into plane crash begins

January 24, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Aerospace / Defense (Legacy), Aerospace and Defense (TRBC), Air Accidents, Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Disasters / Accidents, Environment, General News, Government / Politics, Graphics, Major News, Nature / Wildlife, Picture available, Pictures, Pollution, Precipitation, Transportation (TRBC), United States, US, Video, Weather Markets / Weather, Wildfires / Forest Fires

MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Firefighters in Australia held a minute’s silence on Friday for three U.S. colleagues killed in a plane

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Australian air tanker feared crashed while fighting bushfires

January 23, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Aerospace / Defense (Legacy), Aerospace and Defense (TRBC), Air Accidents, Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Coal, Disasters / Accidents, Environment, Europe, fired Power Stations, General News, Government / Politics, Major News, Nature / Wildlife, PDFs, Pollution, Precipitation, US, Video, Weather Markets / Weather, Wildfires / Forest Fires

MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Helicopters were searching on Thursday for a C-130 Hercules air tanker feared to have crashed while fighting

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