Five Environmental Consequences of Australia’s Fires

Currently, 12.35 million acres of land in Australia are burning, posing a tremendous threat to the environment. One, it threatens wildlife in Australia, considering the fires have already killed about a billion organisms and many species in Australia are endemic to the continent. Two, fire debris is posing a threat to the water supplies, which threatens fish and aquatic species due to rain runoff from the severe amount of ash left from the fires. Three, animal species are being threatened because ecosystems may grow back differently, forcing the species' to adapt to new, post-fire conditions. Four, smoke is currently circumnavigating due to global wind patterns and is drastically raising carbon dioxide emissions. Five, the fires are causing soot rain to fall on New Zealand, threatening the melting of New Zealand's glaciers.

https://eos.org/articles/five-environmental-consequences-of-australias-fires

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