Fires
Photo Story: Australia’s Kangaroo island burn scars can be seen from space
A handout photo made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of a satellite image captured via NOAA-20, high resolution…
Australia issues new evacuation alerts as monster bushfires regenerate
Australian authorities issued new warnings and evacuation notices across the country’s heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather…
Smoke from Australia bushfires drifts as far as South America
Smoke from wildfires in Australia is drifting across the Pacific to cities in South America, and may have reached the Antarctic, the…
Storms bring relief but also new threat to Australian wildfires
Thunderstorms and showers brought some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia’s drought-parched east coast on Wednesday, but also raised concerns…
South Australia’s iconic Kangaroo Island could see rare species wiped out after devastating bushfires
Kangaroo Island is renowned for its native wildlife — the koalas are disease-free, the bees create the purest honey and it is…
Air quality in Melbourne plummets as smoke from fires shrouds Victorian cities in haze
The bushfire smoke blanketing Melbourne and much of Victoria is expected to persist for at least the first half of the week,…
Photo story: Wildfires in Australia from space
A satellite photo made available by MAXAR Technologies shows wildfires east of Orbost, Australia, on the 04 January 2020. So far, the…
Rain falls in Australia but warnings of huge blazes ahead
Rain is falling in Australia and temperatures have dropped - but officials warn that fires ravaging the country will "take off" again.…
Authorities warn Australian bushfires developing their own weather systems
The bushfires ravaging Australia are generating so much heat that they are creating their own weather systems including dry lightning storms and…
3,000 army reservists are deployed in Australia as victims of fires increase
An extra 3,000 army reservists have been called up to help tackle Australia's bushfires with the situation expected to worsen over the…
Photo story: Largest peacetime evacuation in Australia’s history of people affected by bushfires
Handout photos made available by the Australian Department of Defence shows evacuees from Mallacoota, Victoria State, being transported on a landing craft…
Close to half a billion animals potentially killed in Australian fires
Close to half a billion animals in Australia’s New South Wales state may have been killed in wildfires since September -- and…