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"After the devastating floods, it’s hard to imagine only two years earlier many
hard-hit communities suffered extreme heat, drought and unprecedented
bushfires. Yet our report, released today, shows Australia’s environment has
recovered dramatically since then.
Every year we use a supercomputer to analyse vast amounts of measurements from
satellites and field stations to give the condition of Australia’s environment
a score out of ten. For 2021, we score it 6.9 – four points higher than the
year before.
The improvement is largely thanks to two years of plentiful rains that helped
Australia’s forests, pastures and farmland recover well.
But as the rains only increased in 2022, inundating many parts of southeast
Australia, you may well be wondering: can there be too much rain for our
environment? And what might this all mean for the coming bushfire seasons?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
