Globally important natural areas such as Ningaloo and Shark Bay have been hard hit in recent years. But Macquarie Island is ...

Australia's climate will continue to warm, resulting in prolonged wildfire seasons and less rain in the southeast and southwest that will lead to more frequent droughts, the country's weather bureau ...

Huge, fast-moving fires that rip through communities, destroying all in their path, are becoming more common around the globe. Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Greece, and even Hawaiʻi have all suffered ...

More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a ...

PERTH, Australia — Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide and sent thousands of ...

Australia’s 2019-20 bushfires burned with unprecedented intensity through a total of 24 million hectares (59 million acres), an area the size of the U.K. New research shows total costs incurred to the ...

Boom in carbon-sequestering phytoplankton raises new questions about oceanic carbon uptake and productivity Clouds of smoke and ash from wildfires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020 triggered ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday battled an out-of-control bushfire near Western Australia's capital Perth, prompting authorities to urge residents in the fire's path to flee.

Australia’s government said Monday it was willing to pay “whatever it takes” to help communities recover from deadly wildfires that have ravaged the country. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the ...