Editorial: Australia burns as the planet bakes
by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Jan 07, 2020
2 minutes
Australia is on fire. Not all of it - but so far, flames have engulfed some 12 million acres, more than the land mass of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Inhabitants of the hot, dry continent learned long ago that coping with wildfires is a part of life. But the conflagrations that have swept across large parts of Australia are unprecedented in
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