A massive fire burned through northern Australia in 2023, destroying an area three times bigger than the United Kingdom. To understand this scale: the burned area of 84 million hectares is larger than the entire state of New South Wales. “The scale of these fires is hard to comprehend,” says research presented at the International Fire Behaviour and Fuels Conference in Canberra. The fires consumed 84 million hectares, making them eight times larger than the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 that made global headlines. The fires moved with shocking speed. Flames raced across 18 million hectares of the Barkly, Tanami … Continue reading 2023 Northern Australia Bushfires Scorch 84 Million Hectares