Science & Environment
6 ways you can prepare for the on-coming heatwave
Australian Geographic spoke with expert heatwave risk management experts to determine what you can do to beat the heat over the next week.
Australian Geographic spoke with expert heatwave risk management experts to determine what you can do to beat the heat over the next week.
A new study has recently confirmed what Indigenous Australians have known all along: our raptors are using bushfires to corner their prey.
It’s been suggested that the introduction of Australian eucalyptus trees may be to blame for the rapid spread of the Southern California wildfires. But experts say the claims just don’t stack up.
Heat records have tumbled across NSW as the state suffered through the weekend’s heatwave. A new analysis shows that climate change made this kind of event much less of a rarity.
Recovery is slow one year after devastating bushfires tore through the pristine wilderness.
When a bushfire rages so high it creates its own thunderstorm, it becomes a ‘firestorm’ – and makes life much more difficult for firefighters. We still have a lot to learn about what triggers them.
Researchers have found a disaster “hotspot” in northern New South Wales, where nearly half of the state’s most disadvantaged communities are found.
Surveyors have discovered the western ground parrot in a WA reserve for the first time in a decade.
Aboriginal fire management should be part of the solution to destructive bushfires, argues David Bowman, a Professor of Environmental Change Biology at the University of Tasmania.
Recent bushfires in WA have threatened the survival prospects of the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo.