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Expert Reactions | Published: 14 February 202415 February 2024

Fire crews are responding to a large vegetation fire in the Port Hills near Christchurch. Fire and Emergency New Zealand […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 06 January 202015 January 2020

Fires continue to rage across south-eastern Australia and three blazes may join forces to create a mega fire on the Victoria-New South […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 11 November 201912 November 2019

Devastating bushfires along the New South Wales and Queensland coastline have caused the loss of more than 150 homes and […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 23 August 201923 August 2019

Huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest are on fire with smoke from the fires clearly visible from space. There have […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 17 April 2019

Firefighters battled for hours to save the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The spire collapsed on the building, where […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 27 February 201927 February 2019

A new bush fire has broken out near Nelson, as warm and extremely dry conditions persist in the region. Police […]

In the News | Published: 12 February 2019

Wildfires, like the one that has scorched hundreds of hectares of forest near Nelson, may become more common in New […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 19 June 201703 August 2018

The latest reports from last week’s devastating fire in the Grenfell Tower apartment block in London suggest there are 58 […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 15 February 201703 August 2018

Firefighters have been battling fires on Christchurch’s Port Hills since Monday evening. Hundreds of hectares of scrub and vegetation have […]