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Australia Wildfires: First it was the flooding, then a cyclone, and now wildfires have hit Australia. Forty-one homes around Perth in Western Australia have already been destroyed. [Related: Cylcone Yasi Pounds Flood-Ravaged Australia .]

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Brett Israel was a staff writer for Live Science with a focus on environmental issues. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from The University of Georgia, a master’s degree in journalism from New York University, and has studied doctorate-level biochemistry at Emory University.