Jamie Seidel
Jamie Seidel is a freelance journalist based in Adelaide.
Glenn Morrison
Dr Glenn Morrison is an award-winning journalist, researcher, and author who has written of Australia’s Centre and North for more than 25 years. He has degrees in Science, Engineering and a PhD in media and cultural studies. He is general editor of Borderlands, a literary journal of the Northern Territory.
Already this year, wildfires have burned extensive areas of Australia’s North, Red Centre and elsewhere.
Now an El Nino climate cycle is officially upon us, a hot dry summer seems inevitable with higher risk of more bushfires.
But Australia has always burned. Often purposefully. What difference does that make? And might we capitalise on that knowledge?
Cosmos reporters Jamie Seidel and Glenn Morrison talked to innovative fire scientist Dr Rohan Fisher of Charles Darwin University’s Northern Institute to find out.
Previous episodes of Cosmos Country
The electric ute roadshow; understanding the weather; greening urban spaces
Urban greening in regional spaces
The Greenlight Project is a year-long look at how regional Australia is preparing for and adapting to climate change.