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TopicAustralia bushfires

Topic: Australia bushfires

Australia’s bushfires could become the new normal, warn climate scientists

A review of 27 scientific papers published since 2013 reveals that there is a clear link between climate change and bushfires in Australia.

Indonesia’s sinking capital and over 1 billion animals dead in Australia

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Australian bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction

We estimate most of the range and population of between 20 and 100 threatened species will have been burnt. But we won't know till the fire stops burning.

Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before, and could do it again

Humans have seldom, if ever, seen fires like these, but we know they've happened before – when the asteroid strike that killed dinosaurs sparked deadly global firestorms.

Australia’s bushfire crisis raises hard, inevitable questions

Once the immediate threat of these bushfires pass, bigger issues will have to be addressed, such as how to cope with the deep anxiety provoked by the fires.

Trump’s New Year misadventures, and a kangaroo caught in the Australian bushfires

The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Modi offers ‘unstinted support’ to Australia as its PM postpones visit due to bushfires

Australian PM Scott Morrison also postpones Japan trip to stay close to the rescue operations, says will reschedule his visits soon.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.