More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a ...

The death toll from devastating bushfires in eastern Australia has risen to four after a man's body was discovered in a scorched area of bushland, police said Thursday. New South Wales is the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Some fires have burned as high as 20 foot (six metres). [Photo: AFP] Firefighters in ...

In South America, fires in the Pantanal-Chiquitano region, which straddles the border between Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, ...

At work, Morgan Philpott cares for sick children. In his off-hours the Australian paediatric nurse turns his attention to an equally defenceless group: unwell koalas.

New Australian research shows, globally, major bushfire events are becoming more frequent, fatal and economically damaging.

Bad wildfires are becoming more likely, more severe and burning far more land than they otherwise would have due to climate ...

Deadly bushfires have ravaged parts of Australia in recent weeks, whipped up by soaring temperatures, strong winds and the worst drought in decades. But summer hasn’t really even begun — and fears are ...

The Coalition has accused the Australian Climate Service of “tilling the soil” for ambitious emissions targets expected to be ...

Weather forecasters’ outlook for a soggy spring is being rewritten by a rare, sudden temperature spike high above Antarctica ...