No less than 10 million hectares of forest, bush and parks gone up in smoke. A provisional toll of 27 dead, including four firefighters. At least 100,000 displaced and 1.3 billion animals dead.
The figures of the fires which ravage Australia since September give the dizzy. But beyond the emotion, shock images of these "mega-fires", as the Australians call them, what is the real scale of this catastrophe? Is Australia today a window on the future, a disturbing glimpse of what awaits us in the rest of the world?
"Element Earth" devotes a special edition to it, to understand the scale of this human and ecological disaster.
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