Australia’s deadliest fires occurred in 2009 in Victoria ... approximately 75 miles an hour or leaving burned and screaming koalas in its wake. As Greg Mullins, the former fire chief of New ...

A koala hotspot on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales has been discovered thanks to thermal drone surveys. It’s one of ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — As flames engulfed swaths of Los Angeles County this month and U.S. fire authorities scrambled to coordinate help from overseas, one longtime firefighting partner was left ...

Exactly 22 years ago, a wildfire became a devastating urban fire in the Australian capital. On Jan. 18, 2003, what began as a bushfire — as they are known in Australia — started by a lightning ...

Sadly, the koala nicknamed Lewis died a week after it was rescued (archived here). Koalas are marsupials native to Australia. An estimated 60,000 were affected by massive fires that devastated ...

"We don't yet have the tools to actually address those very large fires," Associate Professor Roslyn Prinsley, head of the Australian National University's (ANU) Disaster Solutions team said.

Dwelling in the lush wilderness of Australia, Koalas are often seen clinging to trees. They are threatened by forest fires and land clearing in recent times. A semi-aquatic mammal, the platypus calls ...

If you placed a map of the vast areas the Palisades bushfire alone has burnt over a map of Sydney, it would cover a vast stretch of the city – from Kirribilli on the lower north shore to Lakemba ...

Since 2019, with the help of private landowners, and the World Wide Fund for Nature – Australia (WWF). The organisation has grown more than 414,000 trees across NSW. Bangalow Koalas president ...

As the 2019–2020 megafires took hold across eastern Australia, many of us reeled at the sight of animals trying and often failing to flee. Our screens filled up with images of koalas with burned paws ...

Australia is home to a rich variety of rare and unique animals, with nearly 80% of its plants and animals found nowhere else ...