Bushfire in Australia
Australia's Deadly wildfire are showing no signs no signs of stopping.Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfire seen in decades,with large swathes of the country devastated since the fire season began in late July.
Bushfires have killed at least 8 people in south-eastern Australia since Monday.Seven people have been confirmed dead in New South Wales and one in Victoria.
Condition have eased slightly, and a major road that was closed in Victoria was reopened for two hours on Wednesday to allow people to leave.
But many people remain in fire-hit areas.In one town, Police dropped off 1.6 tonnes of drinking water by boat.
Earlier on Wednesday, the New South Wales Rural Fire service said 916 homes had been destroyed this season, with another 363 damaged and 8,159 saved.
The smoke from Wednesday's fire was visible more than 2,000km (1,200 miles) away from the south Island of New Zealand, where the haze tinted the sky orange.
1 billion animals have died in Australian bushfires.
Australian firefighters used a break from searing temperatures on Tuesday to strengthen containment lines around huge wildfires as the financial and environmental costs of the crisis mounted.
More than 25.5 millions acres of land -an area the size of South Korea have been razed by bushfires across the country in recent weeks, according to the least data, with the Southeast particularly hard it.
The University of Sydney ecologist Chris Dickman stunned people recently with his estimate thatv 480 million animals have been injured or killed in Australia's bushfires.A few weeks later, the fire have spread even farther, and he's updated the impact to include 1 billions animals.
"The 480 million estimate was made a couple of week ago, and the fires have now burnt over a large area of further country. That means over 800 millions mammals, birds and reptiles have been affected by the fire.
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