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How we're sowing the seeds for another bushfire disaster

A timber industry practice to harvest more trees could be exposing Australia to bushfires of greater frequency and intensity.

Culture

Bushfire exhibition rekindles burning questions from a year ago

A year on from the devastating Black Summer bushfire season, Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art is unveiling an exhibition that reflects on the fragility of our environment and threats posed by rising global temperatures.

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Forests under fire: Black Summer recovery still in wilderness, says report

Queensland’s subtropical rainforest destroyed by the Black Summer bushfires can only recover with human intervention, a new report has found.

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We've avoided starvation for now, so let's not make a meal of it

Little wonder shoppers are propelled into the occasional fit of panic buying – the rural back yard in which their food is grown has been under almost constant attack since before last Christmas, gradually fraying nerves and confidence. Brad Cooper reports

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One year on, fears grow of another potential Queensland inferno

Tinder-dry Queensland sits on the edge of another potential firestorm, just as the state remembers the massive Black Summer fires that engulfed coastal and regional communities one year ago.