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Australian Bushfire Has Grown to Size of Melbourne, NASA Image Shows

2014-02-13 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: A fire rivaling the size of the city of Melbourne is raging in southeastern Australia, as a NASA satellite image taken at night earlier this week shows. The Snowy River Complex Fire, which is burning mountain forests near a remote national park, is one of three bushfires that flared up last weekend. Fueled by strong winds combined with a heat wave and prolonged dry conditions, the three fires have consumed more than 180,000 hectares (695 square miles), about 100,000 (390 square miles) of which burned...

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