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Nature 444, 426 (23 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444426a; Published online 22 November 2006

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Science in culture: Burning Bush

Colin Martin1

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An exhibition in Australia highlights the country's bushfires.

Disastrous bushfires, which occur regularly in Australia during the scorching summer months, have scarred the country's collective psyche as well as its landscape. From colonial painter William Strutt's panoramic canvases of bushfires, such as the Black Thursday fires in 1851, to today's television news coverage of widespread forest devastation and burnt-out buildings, images of bushfires abound.