Credit: mikulas1/Getty ImagesResearchers from the Australian National University have found that poorer and more remote communities faced the greatest loss of well-being due to Australia’s 2019-20 Black Summer fires. The researchers hope the findings can help shape Australia’s future disaster relief support systems to more equitably support wildfire-affected communities. The results, published in One Earth, uncovered that the wildfires caused unequal well-being losses across income, gender and geographic lines. The researchers found that there was a 3.5% decline in weekly median income in non-poor areas after the fires. “The gender gap in the distribution of unpaid tasks was expected, given the persistent gender inequality in allocating unpaid work between men and women nationwide,” the authors write.