{"id":223254,"date":"2020-01-05T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/?p=223254"},"modified":"2020-01-05T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T16:46:07","slug":"australias-bushfire-crisis-has-created-apocalyptic-and-orange-blazes-bigger-than-europe-while-killing-500-million-animals-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/australias-bushfire-crisis-has-created-apocalyptic-and-orange-blazes-bigger-than-europe-while-killing-500-million-animals-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Bushfire Crisis Creates A Massive Plume of Smoke Bigger Than Europe While Killing 500 Million Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the bushfires crisis in Australia<\/strong> continues on without weakening, the smoke it has been creating is believed to cover a greater area than the whole of Europe, with its neighbour New Zealand getting soot in their land from the fires.<\/p>\n

So far, there has been a death toll of at least 19 humans and almost 500,000,000 animals<\/strong> due to these fires. Experts believe that a much larger humanitarian crisis is looming over the country with no one else to blame but the government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Last week, experts states that 2.1 million square miles (5.5 million sq km) of smoke has started to make its way towards New Zealand by drifting over the Pacific Ocean. BBC reported that Australia has been blanketed by smoke and haze in the last few days. The Guardian has also reported that vacationers in New Zealand have described the skies over there as \u201corange\u201d<\/strong><\/em> and \u201capocalyptic.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> This smoke and soot has even stained the neighbouring country\u2019s iconic white glaciers, turning them black and \u201ccaramelizing\u201d the snow which could further endanger these glaciers even more. Snow that gets blackened by ash and dust tend to melt at a faster rate than usual.<\/p>\n

A fellow research scientist over at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, Antti Lipponen tweeted that the smoke plume has reached a size over four times bigger than Alaska<\/strong>, 14 times bigger than Japan<\/strong>, and about the same distance between Turkey and Iceland.<\/p>\n