At work, Morgan Philpott cares for sick children. In his off-hours the Australian paediatric nurse turns his attention to an equally defenceless group: unwell koalas.

New Australian research shows, globally, major bushfire events are becoming more frequent, fatal and economically damaging.

Australian scientists are using sniffer dogs to rescue koalas struggling to survive damaging bushfires as they try to avoid a repeat of last year's high death count of the native animals.

The death toll from devastating bushfires in eastern Australia has risen to four after a man's body was discovered in a scorched area of bushland, police said Thursday. New South Wales is the ...

Residents are being urged to prepare to leave their homes as fierce bushfires burn in one state, with warnings they could ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Some fires have burned as high as 20 foot (six metres). [Photo: AFP] Firefighters in ...

The Minister for Communications says Australians need confidence in emergency Triple Zero system before the coming “disaster ...

Thousands of residents in Central Queensland have been warned to prepare to evacuate as violent blazes continue to burn ...

Deadly bushfires have ravaged parts of Australia in recent weeks, whipped up by soaring temperatures, strong winds and the worst drought in decades. But summer hasn’t really even begun — and fears are ...

By 2050, the report found the number of coastal communities located in "high and very high risk areas" in Australia will ...