From the inferno of Black Thursday in 1851 to the devastation of Black Summer starting at the end of 2019, bushfires have a powerful legacy in post-European settlement Victoria. These fires have not ...

Lead author and PhD student Vivienne Reiner from the Centre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney. A first of its kind study of the 2019-2020 ...

Australia’s deadly bushfires in the 2019-2020 season generated 700 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – triggering vast algal blooms in the Southern Ocean. Using satellite data, two ...

Australia has a long history of bushfires. The 2019-2020 Black Summer was the worst in recorded history. But was that the worst it could get? Our new research has reconstructed the past 2,000 years of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, showed a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) ...