#Australia declares state of disaster as bushfires rageAustralian authorities declared a #StateOfDisaster on Saturday after #bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of #forest in the country's southeast.Temperatures soared past 40C as a #HeatWave blanketed the state of #Victoria this week, with hot winds fanning some of the most dangerous fire weather since the "Black Summer" #bushfires of 2019-2020.One of the most destructive bushfires ripped through almost 150,000 hectares (370,000 acres) near #Longwood, a region cloaked in native #forests.State Premier Jacinta Allan on Saturday declared a state of disaster, giving fire crews emergency powers to force evacuations."It's all about one thing: protecting Victorian lives," she said.https://phys.org/news/2026-01-australia-declares-state-disaster-bushfires.html

The French PEPR Forestt programme, in the MONITOR workpackage, proposes a PhD grant for modelling changes in French forest biodiversity at high spatial resolution in a context of global change. The candidate will be based at the University of Toulouse within the CRBE, and the PhD will be supervised by Romain Bertrand, Marion Jourdan and Xavier Morin.More information is available here: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR5300-ROMBER-002/Default.aspx?lang=ENApplications must be submitted via this link by 1 March 2026 (start date of the thesis: 1 May).Please feel free to share this thesis opportunity with your students or anyone else who may be interested.#AcademicChatter#science #career #sciencejobs #phd #phdposition#ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Modelling #Forests@EcoModPotsdam@academicchatter

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