The Minderoo Foundation has set what even itself is claiming to be an audacious goal: Helping Australia extinguish bushfires within one hour by 2025. For that to happen, Lee Goddard, who was appointed ...

A UNSW Canberra researcher has developed a world-first warning system for extreme bushfires that can be an invaluable tool for firefighting services. The new warning system, developed by Adjunct ...

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 ...

The research team generated a series of fire susceptibility maps. These show the proportion of Australia experiencing 'high' or 'very high' fire susceptibility increasing from 14.9% now to 15.66% by ...

The threat of intense bushfires looms over New South Wales as record spring temperatures and high winds fan the flames of more than 60 blazes already burning in Australia’s most populous state, ...

Record-Breaking Australia Heatwave Fuels Bushfires, Cuts Power to Thousands By Christine Chen SYDNEY, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A record-breaking heatwave baked ‌Australia's southeast for a fifth straight ...

PERILS, the Zurich-based catastrophe insurance data provider, has provided its first insurance industry loss estimate for the Victoria Bushfires, which ...

Survivor accounts reveal how quickly evacuation routes become fatal, and why the danger of getting behind the wheel is often underestimated.

Warning: The following story contains content that may distress some readers. Beth’s* husband had never been violent before bushfires endangered their property in northern Victoria. But amid the Black ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Four years since bushfires destroyed wide swathes of southeastern Australia, killing 33, the country is once again on high alert, bracing for what weather experts say will be the ...

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