Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has published its third industry loss estimate for the Victoria Bushfires which took place ...

A recent bushfire in Kadnook, western Victoria, which destroyed at least one property and burned more than 1,000 hectares of land, is being investigated due to suspicion it was deliberately lit. This ...

Bushfires have been ravaging the country for months, devastating towns, rural communities and livelihoods. Here are the best ways to help. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple ...

A new study unpacks how Victoria’s eucalypt forests have coped with past bushfires – with lessons for the future.

Around 12,000 people in one holiday hotspot have been forced to stay indoors.

It's hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire. Yet this behavior regularly occurs in Australia and other countries. We would go a long way to preventing bushfires if we ...

The colossal bushfires that tore through Australia in 2019 and 2020 charred some 37,500 square miles, obliterating iconic ecosystems and pushing already-threatened species to the brink. The blazes ...

Every time a weather extreme occurs, some people quickly jump in to say we’ve been through it all before: that worse events have happened in the past, or it’s just part of natural climate variability.