heatwave
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7 Movies in Which Heat Is a Main Character
In Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, a summer heat wave descends on Brooklyn, pushing neighbours into the streets and stirring up boiling resentments. The heat is less of an environmental setting and more of a character unto itself.
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How Heatwaves and Drought Combine to Produce the Perfect Firestorm
Long heatwaves during entrenched drought often trigger fears of bushfire. It’s easy to imagine rolling days of hot, dry weather desiccating leaves, bark and twigs, transforming them into a potent fuel. Victoria’s heatwave in 2009, which reached a record temperature of 46.4℃, came during severe, enduring drought and culminated in the Black Saturday bushfire tragedy.…
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The Timeless Appeal Of An Ocean Pool – Turns Out It’s A Good Investment, Too
Depending on definitions, the coast of New South Wales, Australia, has about 70 ocean pools, with most located between Newcastle and Wollongong. South Africa has a comparable number, but the rest of the world has only a handful.
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Gigantic Bats Are Dying Upside Down, Making Australia’s Heatwave Look Like A Horror Movie
If you’ve ever seen Australia’s grey-headed flying fox, you know that they’re absolutely terrifying. With an average wingspan of over 0.91m, these threatened animals are sometimes called megabats. But you haven’t really seen terrifying until you’ve seen the flying fox dying by the hundreds, which is precisely what’s happening Down Under right now.