University of Queensland researchers have completed the first comprehensive studies of recent fire history and koala ...

Dozens of firefighters are gathered outside a rural brigade in Sydney's northern outskirts, listening intently to a briefing about a hazard reduction burn. "It's a fairly small burn, but it's fairly ...

Huge, fast-moving fires that rip through communities, destroying all in their path, are becoming more common around the globe. Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Greece, and even Hawaiʻi have all suffered ...

Communities across the nation are being warned to remain vigilant over the next three months. AFAC’s 2024 summer bushfire ...

Ahead of bushfire season, the SA Country Fire Service's air operations teams clear out the cobwebs and take to the skies to ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian fire crews are battling massive bushfires on Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island, which have been burning for six weeks, forcing tourists to flee the island ...

Google has rolled out a new bushfire layer on Google Maps for Australian users to easily access official bushfire information about active fires. The new layer can be turned on by tapping the layers ...

SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Australia's southeast on Saturday sweated through a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to ban fires in large parts of New South Wales state. The ...

Giant satellite floor maps are helping people prepare for emergencies by showing them a bird's eye view of where threats come ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Residents of a coastal township on Australia's World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached. Since it was sparked by an illegal ...

Australian firefighters are struggling to control a massive bushfire that already destroyed 40 percent of the UNESCO world heritage-listed Fraser Island before a heatwave hit Monday. The fire on the ...

Australia’s devastating recent wildfires thrust as much smoke into the Earth’s atmosphere as a powerful volcanic eruption, causing cooling over the region’s oceans with potentially long-lasting ...