UNSW Bushfire News

Citizen scientists are being encouraged to photograph bushfire-affected areas to help UNSW Sydney researchers track the recovery of flora and fauna after the fires.

People die protecting homes. They are wrong to believe their homes will protect them.

The Dean of UNSW Built Environment says it’s possible to build more fire resistant homes, but designs need to use best practice principles to be resilient.

A UNSW studio led by renowned landscape architect Professor Richard Weller has come up with a unique way to protect our threatened species.

Another troubling consequence of the bushfire smoke is its effects on our eyes. But there are some steps we can take to minimise irritation and any risk of longer-term harm.

Particulates in fire smoke can irritate the lining of the respiratory tract, causing throat irritation, coughing and breathing difficulties.

UNSW academics are available for interview on the bushfires, discussing links to climate change, and how fires affect our health and water supplies.

In a matter of weeks, the fires have subverted decades of dedicated conservation efforts for many threatened species.

Air purifiers with a HEPA filter are an expensive option. Plugging ventilation holes in walls helps, but there are also dangers.

Professor Stuart Khan from UNSW Sydney explains the immediate and long-term effects of bushfires on water quality.

Smoke haze appears to make it hard for participants in financial markets to make the right decisions. The finding has far-reaching implications.

Extreme fire risk will overlap with weather patterns to create fire tornadoes more often under climate change.

UNSW academics are available for interview on the bushfires, discussing links to climate change, and how fires affect our health and water supplies

Large, intense bushfires can pump so much heat into the atmosphere they form their own thunderstorm system. And that can make the weather on the ground even more dangerously unpredictable.

With New South Wales suffering winter bushfires and temperature records tumbling around the globe, Australian leaders in Canberra have picked a bad time to jettison climate policy in favour of political bickering.

UNSW tsunami expert James Goff has co-edited the first textbook to be written on the fire, drought, flooding rains and other natural phenomena that plague the sunburnt country and its close neighbours.

Media reports of natural disasters may reduce our perception of risk, writes Ben Newell.

Bronze Age musical instruments and Australia's catastrophic bushfires have inspired Andrew Schultz's dramatic composition for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's tour of China.