These, indeed, are not the best of times for the world. In Australia, months of raging fire have left at least 28 people dead, about 3,000 homes destroyed, 499,621 hectares (1.23 million acres) of land burned and up to 1 billion animals affected.
In same Australia, a torrential rainfall, that
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