Over the past decade, fire-prevention programmes, mainly on aboriginal lands in northern Australia, have cut destructive wildfires in half. Even as towns in the south burned in recent months and smoke haze blanketed Sydney and Melbourne, wildfires in northern Australia were much less severe. The landscape and climate of northern Australia also make it more amenable to preventive burning. Northern aboriginal traditions revolve around the monsoon, with land burned patch by patch as the wet season gives way to the dry. NASA satellite data is used to quantify the reduction in carbon emissions and do computer modeling to track fires.

Source: bd News24 January 17, 2020 04:52 UTC