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Sydney smoke crisis ‘longest on record’

Commuter ferries sail past the Sydney Harbour Bridge as smoke from bushfires blankets the central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on December 2, 2019. Some two million hectares of land in New South Wales have been burnt since July in more than 7,000 fires. – EPA pic, December 5, 2019.

AUSTRALIAN bushfires have caused unprecedented pollution in Sydney and along the country’s east coast, officials said today, with smoke and dust burning residents’ eyes and prompting a spike in respiratory complaints. Hundreds of bushfires have burned out of control since September up and down the eastern seaboard, blanketing cities from Sydney to Brisbane in smoke for weeks on end.

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