Feral cats are taking advantage of the ecological crisis caused by the bushfires
Feral cats will travel many kilometres outside their home ranges to burnt areas to prey on vulnerable native animals exposed by bushfires.
Feral cats will travel many kilometres outside their home ranges to burnt areas to prey on vulnerable native animals exposed by bushfires.
While the fires may have eased in south-east Queensland, the work is ongoing for wildlife carers and their charges. Here’s how your donated funds are helping.
Shhhhh. How specialist remote-area fire crews saved the ancient Wollemi pines.
Australian Geographic spoke with expert heatwave risk management experts to determine what you can do to beat the heat over the next week.
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.