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Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest

24 February 2020

Australia’s recent extreme wildfires burned 5.8 million hectares of forest, destroying about one fifth of the forest biome in eastern Australia over four months

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Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest

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