Millions have sweltered through this week’s intense heatwave.
Hundreds of baby bats died earlier this week as stifling temperatures settled over the state of South Australia, a local wildlife group said.
The “Black Summer” bushfires raged across Australia’s eastern seaboard from late 2019 to early 2020, razing millions of hectares, destroying thousands of homes and blanketing cities in noxious smoke.
Australia’s climate has warmed by an average of 1.51C since 1910, researchers have found, fueling increasingly frequent extreme weather patterns over both land and sea.
Australia remains one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of gas and coal, two key fossil fuels blamed for global heating.
