As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along with their habitat, leaving them “functionally extinct.”
As Australia faces historic drought conditions, the impacts of climate change are increasingly difficult to ignore.
Australia’s heat waves, now an annual ordeal, have been expanding into new territory — like Tasmania, where more than 50 wildfires were burning as of Friday.
Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.