Ï㽶ÊÓƵ News - australia /channels/news_feeds/all/term/australia/rss en The Australian wildfire anomaly /channels/channels/news/australian-wildfire-anomaly-319548 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Every year, patches of Australian forests are consumed by fire, an ecologically necessary process that releases soil nutrients and stimulates plant growth. When the fire season is exacerbated by drought and high temperature, however, the devastation is so great that some citizens are forced to flee their homes. In the most extreme circumstances, natural habitats are ruined completely, even to the point of species extirpation. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">30 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2020</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:33:29 +0000 webfull 157745 at /channels