The bushfires are a national catastrophe for the city and country. How are we going to live like this? | Ross Bradstock and David Bowman

Our current policy, operational, knowledge-gathering and research capacity is inadequate to deal with such a new, fiery worldThe fire situation in eastern Australia continues to rapidly escalate.At this stage we cannot predict when this will come to an end, but with losses of lives and property mounting on the south coast of NSW, eastern Victoria, South Australia, southwestern WA and Tasmania, we now have a nationally significant catastrophe that affects city and country alike. Continue reading...