Invasive grasses are worsening bushfires across Australia's drylands
- Written by Andrew Edwards, Research Fellow Bushfires, Charles Darwin University
As the semi-arid Pilliga Scrub burns in New South Wales, many of us are thinking about fire once again. It’s an El Niño summer in the hottest year on record. And there’s a remarkable amount of grass drying out and ready to burn.
Over the past few years, more rain than usual has fallen over vast regions of Australia’s...





