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

Australian firefighters said Friday they were fighting to control a bushfire racing through a national park that has consumed an area the size of Singapore. The eastern state of Victoria has faced ...

Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help transform how we understand and respond to the escalating threat of bushfires. We start this journey with the first imagery now available from the proto satellite ...

The researchers found that colonialisation drove cascading changes: increased fire temperature, a four-fold increase in eucalypt cover, transformation from an open woodland to forest, and increased ...

After storms hit Adelaide and the Northern Territory, IAG expects more frequent thunderstorms in the east while El Niño keeps ...

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 ...

British colonisers thought they were protecting forests by stopping Indigenous burning. It’s now backfiring - Colonisation led to fourfold increase in eucalyptus tree cover and transformed landscape f ...

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

Australia is facing a severe bushfire crisis with extreme weather conditions affecting Victoria. The fires, exacerbated by a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Clear Range fire burns near Bredbo North after overrunning the property of Lawrence and Claire Cowie on Feb. 1, 2020, near ...