Australia bushfires: 5 things to know about the crisis
Jan 8, 2020 · There are also fires blazing in parts of Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. With some people stranded for days amid shortages of food and fuel, the military has deployed ships and aircraft to bring supplies and evacuate people from fire-devastated coastal towns.
How the world is helping Australia combat the bushfires | World ...
Jan 13, 2020 · Volunteer fire brigades are common across southeast Australia. Recruits come from towns and rural communities, where bushfires are a fact of life in summer months. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service claims to be the world’s largest volunteer firefighting organization.
How many animals did the Australian bushfires affect?
Aug 4, 2020 · WWF-Australia's CEO has warned that with climate change making bushfires more likely, the threat on wildlife has been put into perspective. A shocking new report compiled by 10 scientists and commissioned by WWF-Australia has found that the country's devastating bushfires in 2019 and 2020 killed or displaced nearly three billion animals ...
Successful Pilot Shows How Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Wildfires
Jan 16, 2023 · The US has experienced around 1.5 million wildfires since 2000; in Australia, more than 3 billion animals were killed or displaced in the 2019–2020 bushfire season This devastating trend is set to continue, affecting lives and livelihoods the world over: the World Meteorological Organization predicts an increase in extreme fires globally of ...
Australian wildfires pushed koalas to the brink, say …
Mar 10, 2020 · Koalas have been listed as a vulnerable species in parts of Australia since 2012, but they may be facing extinction in the state of New South Wales (NSW) in the wake of the recent wildfires. According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the fires killed around 5,000 koalas in NSW.
How AI can help the world fight wildfires | World Economic Forum
May 18, 2022 · Wildfire disaster management requires solutions for fire prevention, forecast and detection, risk and response management. It is a highly time-sensitive process that necessitates on-the-spot decisions and communication of information at a rapid pace. Digitizing fire data to leverage the power of AI technologies becomes an imperative step ...
Sea level rise is a global threat - World Economic Forum
Sep 20, 2024 · In its Surging Seas report, the organization highlights the dangers facing the communities of the Pacific Small Island Developing States: "The Pacific SIDS, especially those in the western tropical Pacific (e.g., Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands), are particularly vulnerable to SLR [sea level rise] because of: (i) high exposure to tropical cyclones …
How to turn industrial carbon emissions into building materials
Nov 19, 2020 · The company has designed and built three carbon reactor systems, including its flagship, a world-first global reference pilot plant in Newcastle, Australia – which transforms waste materials and emissions created by industrial processes – and hopes to lock away 1 billion tonnes of CO2 per annum by 2040.
Global income inequality: How big is gap between richest and …
Dec 10, 2021 · These charts show the growing income inequality between the world's richest and poorest Dec 10, 2021
Middle powers: what are they and why do they matter?
Jan 26, 2024 · There is no exact or agreed definition of a middle power, however. The term is “imprecise and contested”, according to the Forum whitepaper, which also notes that some countries referred to as middle powers are today rising in stature; such as India, which might be better described as a major power.