New research shows Black Summer’s megafires left lasting scars far beyond property damage
- Written by Sonia Akter, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Beginning in the second half of 2019, what we now know as the Black Summer fires began devastating eastern Australia.
Thousands of homes were destroyed, hundreds of lives were lost (mainly from smoke-induced health impacts) and smoke blanketed cities for weeks. By summer’s end in 2020, an area estimated to be larger than the United Kingdom ha...
