Good rainfall across much of Australia in the past year has kept forests healthy. But underneath the ocean waves, it was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Australian state of Victoria faced its most dangerous bushfires in years on Friday, with dozens of active blazes fuelled by ...

After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more ...

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 ...

SYDNEY, Jan 11 – Human remains were found in Australia’s southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on ...

Emergency warnings were in place for fires at Hillville south of Taree and nearby Crowdy Bay National Park on Saturday ...

Burnt forest outside of Gellibrand. Victorians are sweating through what could be the state’s most severe heatwave in nearly two decades. (Reuters pic) A record-breaking heatwave baked Australia’s ...