Bushfires supercharged by climate pollution will cost Australia's economy a staggering $181 billion over the next 30 years ($6bn annually), new ...

Emergency conservation teams across Australia launched an airborne relief mission to prevent mass starvation among nat ...

Fire is a natural part of the Australian landscape. But the more frequent fires we've seen recently—particularly the high severity bushfires that consume or scorch the canopies of whole forests—are a ...

Bushfires have razed hundreds of buildings across southeast Australia, authorities said Sunday, as they confirmed the first death from the disaster. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heat wave ...

Large bushfires burning in western Victoria are burning out of control, and the authorities are concerned that they may intensify on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Heavy rain fell across parts of fire-ravaged eastern Australia on Thursday and more wet weather was forecast, giving some relief following months of catastrophic blazes fuelled by climate change. The ...

Researchers say ‘massacres’ of Aboriginals ended cultural burning practices that made woodlands more resistant ...

Homegrown technology to monitor the flammability of eucalypt forests could be Australia's first satellite mission for Earth observation, if scientists can raise the funds.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly released satellite imagery from Copernicus EU shows the scale of the bushfires affecting the Australian state of Victoria.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan tour the fire-damaged town of Harcourt in Victoria ...

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - An Australian firefighter was killed overnight after he was struck by a tree while trying to control a bushfire that had destroyed homes and burnt large swathes of ...