Tasmania’s forests are burning more as climate change dries them out. Our old tools can’t fight these new fires
- Written by David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
The summer of 2021-22 will be remembered for the extraordinarily destructive flooding across eastern Australia. At the same time, however, western Tasmania was experiencing extreme drought, with some areas receiving their lowest rainfall on record.
This drought fits an observed drying trend across the state, which will worsen due to climate...
