Wildfires Are Obliterating Australia's Iconic Ecosystems

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

• Episode: Wildfires Are Obliterating Australia's Iconic Ecosystems
• Website: WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More
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• Duration: 00:08:33
• Published: 2020-01-10 12:12

Australians haven’t seen anything like the bushfires currently tearing through their country. The conflagrations are obliterating landscapes and their ecosystems, reshaping the continent in irreparable ways. Bushfires aren’t supposed to behave like this. In a normal world, every so often a lightning-sparked fire will roll through a landscape, clearing away old foliage to make way for the new.