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Nov 30 2009 2:21 PM

Report: Bushfire Coverage Raises Ethics Questions

By Cait McMahon

What has become known as the "Black Saturday Bushfires" is Australia’s worse natural disaster to date. On Feb. 7, 2009, temperatures of 46 degrees Celsius and winds of 100 km per hour created explosive firestorms with 1500 times the energy of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. More »

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