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.
Western Australia’s bushfires have razed more than 85,000 hectares of the state’s south-west
The huge bushfires around Adelaide could be seen from space
Deep in the ancient forests of south-west Western Australia are thought to lurk colossal karri trees,taller than any yet recorded