Climate change fuels bush fire risk
By Agence France-Presse in Sydney | China Daily | Updated: 2016-01-21 08:05
US government scientists set to announce that 2015 was the planet's hottest year in modern times
"A sunburned country ... with a pitiless blue sky", so the famous poem goes, but where once Australia could rely on "steady, soaking rain", a trend of hotter and drier weather as the climate warms is making it more vulnerable to severe bush fires.
US government scientists were widely expected to announce on Wednesday that 2015 was the planet's hottest year in modern times.
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