New world news from Time: ‘A Harbinger of Things to Come’: Farmers in Australia Struggle With Its Hottest Drought Ever

When the wind blows, Krystal Bullen’s home can vanish in an instant. It sits on 4,000 acres of dust outside Pilliga, a New South Wales town nearly 300 miles northwest of Sydney, and a good gust will engulf her homestead in a brown haze.

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