Despite years of rain, Blue Mountains forests still haven’t recovered from the Black Summer megafires

Brook Mitchell/Getty For three years before the Black Summer megafires of 2019–20, cool season rainfall in southeastern Australia was only half that of normal. When fires broke out, intensely dry conditions helped them spread through areas typically resistant to burning, such as wetlands and rainforests. After the fir

Or we could be really pretentious and call it ‘pappardelle con prosciutto della Foresta Nera e Gorgonzola’. But let’s not.