Tasmania Fire Service has issued a Bushfire Watch and Act for Lefroy and surrounds – Monitor conditions as they are changing.The fire is travelling towards Curries River Reservoir and expected to ...

This process of bushfire preparedness assessment is critical considering the massive impacts of many bushfires on safety, economic and social impacts and environmental impacts, including Australia, ...

Our research shows that emerging fire regimes are pushing the very character of our forests. Picture: Tom Fairman, University of Melbourne Our research shows that emerging fire regimes are pushing the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia faces a possible 300 percent increase in extreme bushfires by 2050 unless world leaders can agree to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said on ...

This year's fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential rain, the next a burst of heat, followed by a sharp cold ...

NASA's Terra satellite collected this natural-color image with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument on Sept. 18, 2014. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS's ...

The 2019-2020 Australian bushfires threw up so much ash into the atmosphere that it resulted in a cooling of the southern Pacific and hence a La Niña climate phenomenon, a new study says. Volcanic ...