The following information is taken from a report by Kevin Fagan in the San Francisco Chronicle, 17 August 2018. The California Department of Forestry and…
Paul Somerville, Chief Geoscientist, Risk Frontiers Nearly 771,000 acres of largely unpopulated land have burned across California during the past week as dozens of lightning-sparked…
New thinking is required for bushfire fighting in Australia
Steven George, James O’Brien, Salomé Hussein, Jonathan van Leeuwen, Risk Frontiers Risk Frontiers deployed a team to the NSW South Coast region in late January,…
Lucinda Coates, Risk Frontiers Targeting policy interventions to enhance public safety is critical. Here we interrogate PerilAUS, Risk Frontiers database of natural hazard occurences in…
Steven George, Salome Hussein, Jacob Evans, Risk Frontiers Risk Frontiers deployed a damage survey team in early December. The team travelled to bushfire-affected communities in…
The 2019/2020 Australian bushfire season is far from over but has already been unprecedented in its destruction. Since August multiple concurrent and sequential bushfires across…
By Lucinda Coates, Andrew Gissing & Paul Somerville The ongoing fire emergencies in northeast New South Wales (NSW) and southeast Queensland (QLD) have attracted significant…
Mingzhu Wang, Lucinda Coates and Thomas Mortlock. In 2018, Queensland had the third-warmest spring and forth-warmest November on record, in terms of mean temperature (BoM,…
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle on 21 June 2018, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and its parent company, PG&E Corp., reported Thursday that…