By Mongabay Haze Beat Fresh research published in early 2024 continues to uncover the true cost on biodiversity, the economy and public health triggered by unprecedented wildfires that swept Australia in late 2019 and early 2020. “These results are an illustration of what can be expected in the future not only in Australia, but in other nations that are vulnerable to climate-change driven disasters,” said Vivienne Reiner, the lead author of an economic study published in the journal Economics of Disasters and Climate Change. On Jan. 31 Reiner and colleagues published the results of their input…