World Kangaroo Day, on Oct. 24, celebrates one of Australia’s national symbols and the macropod’s special place in the ...

A rapidly warming world means more frequent and intense bushfires. And in Australia, the strengthening El Niño could create ...

SYDNEY, Jan 11 – Human remains were found in Australia’s southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on ...

Australia’s bushfire emergency has sparked an online disinformation campaign “unprecedented” in the country’s history, researchers told AFP Friday, with bots deployed to shift blame for the blazes ...

The suppression of Indigenous burning practices in Australia after British colonization probably transformed swathes of the southeast into dense, flammable forests that contribute to bigger, hotter ...

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Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heat wave ...

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 ...

Bushfires could cost Australia more than $181 billion over the next 30 years as global warming increases their frequency and ...

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The study, published on Thursday by the University of Melbourne, found long-term environmental shifts should not be blamed on climate change alone.

Bushfires flared in southern Australia on Thursday as a heatwave expected to bring renewed misery set in, and officials warned some areas are “just at the beginning” of the devastating crisis.