Extreme heat rise fuelling mental health problems
Rising levels of extreme heat in Australia are contributing to increases in mental health...
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Life of a firey, as a dangerous summer nears
Heading into a fire is nothing like what people see on TV, Sarah Tobin says with a smile, before...
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Smoke felt behind the bars: Indigenous prisoners paint their response to the bushfires
Despite their incarceration, Indigenous inmates at the Long Bay Correctional Complex in Sydney are acutely aware of the devastation caused by summer’s bushfires. The proof is in their art.
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Red to black to green: a fresh challenge as colour returns to Kangaroo Valley
Mark Kriedemann documents Kangaroo Valley’s transformation from blackened earth to green-again forest – to its latest challenge, COVID-19.
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Strategy to build Bega’s climate resilience
Dairy farmers in the Bega Valley have long battled supermarkets over the prices paid for their milk products, so when summer’s bushfires swept through their properties and herds, it was all too cruel a blow.
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Bega’s search for a middle ground on climate change
Luca, Anise and Nelly Yi, and their friend Harry Haggar, are part of the School Strike for Climate movement. They watched in shock as their cause was brought into vivid focus during this summer’s deadly bushfires.
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Heatwave, bushfires and a New Year’s ‘re-do’
Isabella Garrido was one of four students who travelled to Bega in the middle of a heatwave, and as the South Coast faced another bushfire emergency.
Read MoreSouth Coast businesses in ‘stagnant limbo’
This is the harsh reality of life on the NSW South Coast at the moment, in the wake of the region’s catastrophic bushfires.
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