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The catastrophic 2019-2020 summer season in Australia is an apocalyptic warning of what climate change can do to other parts of the world. While structures can be rebuilt and fauna regrown, the loss of human and animal life is a tragedy beyond recovery Bush fires in Australia have been going on since September 2019 and there is no end in sight. As of January 8, 2020, 26 people were confirmed dead in the bush fires that burned more than 12 million acres, destroyed 5,900 buildings, with more than 2300 homes…

This koala mum and her joey were among the lucky ones rescued from the bush fires in Australia. (Photo: Darren/Jimboomba Police, via Facebook) A large area of the 1,700-square mile Kangaroo Island — lying southwest of Adelaide, off the mainland of South Australia — is protected as nature reserves that boasted a number of extremely rare and localised fauna and flora in Australia. But this was before bush fires consumed an estimated 600 square miles, or one third, of the island, according to NASA. According to official figures, the fires…

Record-breaking temperatures in 2019 had devastating effects on all regions and all living things. Here is a look at how the weather played havoc the whole year with devastating results. It is alarming that scientists and researchers don’t need to give us proof of climate change being real now — nature has done that, increasingly so in the last decade, particularly last year. In 2019, except for hardcore climate-change deniers such as politicians and business heads, everyone was concerned about the climatic events that affected them and countless others around…