The 59-year-old man was struck by a falling tree Sunday night while fighting a wildfire near the New South Wales town of ...

A firefighter was killed and homes destroyed after fast-moving bushfires swept through Australian communities over the weekend.

SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

Marta Yebra is a member of the ACT Multi Hazards Advisory Council and The International Academy of Astronautics. This year’s fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential ...

Hundreds of wildfires are burning across Australia forcing thousands to evacuate -- and the U.S. Embassy to issue a warning to tourists on the south coast of New South Wales to get out. "It's really ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- A new visualization from NASA shows how the smoke plume from the Australian wildfires has traveled across the globe over the past several weeks. The visualization from the Earth ...

The firefighter died after being struck by a tree. Dozens of homes in two states have been lost as hot, windy conditions ...

The AFAC Seasonal Bushfire Outlook for Summer 2025 released today identifies an increased risk of fire for south-west Victoria, western and southern Western Australia and parts of central northern New ...

Correction appended: Oct. 24, 2013, 2:05 a.m. E.T. Wildfires are nothing new in Australia, a sunburned country with plenty of vegetation to burn to a crisp when temperatures skyrocket during the ...

SYDNEY, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Australian authorities on Sunday downgraded alerts for wildfires that have burnt through thousands of hectares of bushland in the country's most populous state, destroying ...