'This crisis has been unfolding for years': 4 photos of Australia from space, before and after the bushfires
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Editor’s note: We pulled four before-and-after-images from NASA’s Worldview application, and asked bushfire researcher Grant Williamson to reflect on the story they tell. Here’s what he told us: