EditorialPlants scorched by a wildfire on beach dunes at Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island in Australia this past January, not far from where a great white shark attack took place at D’Estrees Bay on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020.
EditorialSimon Kelly, a farmer, tends to a koala caught in the wildfires on his property on Kangaroo Island in Australia, on Jan. 16, 2020. (Christina Simons/The New York Times)
EditorialSimon Kelly, center, a farmer on Kangaroo Island in Australia, at one of the several pits needed to bury all of his sheep, on Jan. 16, 2020. (Christina Simons/The New York Times)
EditorialA kangaroo stands under a pall of smoke from nearby wildfires at the Raymond Island Koala and Wildlife Shelter in Waterholes, Australia, on Jan. 6, 2020. (Christina Simons/The New York Times)
EditorialA kangaroo that survived the recent fires at the Raymond Island Koala and Wildlife shelter in Waterholes, Australia on Jan. 6, 2020. (Christina Simons/The New York Times)
EditorialA kangaroo that survived the recent fires at the Raymond Island Koala and Wildlife shelter in Waterholes, Australia on Jan. 6, 2020. (Christina Simons/The New York Times)