Garrod says the effects of the fires - over 18 million acres have burned - will extend into the coming months and years as even the animals that escape may struggle to survive for much longer due ...

As bushfires continue to ravage the country, Australia's Defence Force is in a rush against time to bury dead livestock and wild animals killed by the flames.

Billions of animals are now believed to have been wiped out in the catastrophic Australian bushfires — with scientists also warning that at least one species has become extinct, according to a ...

Koalas rescued during last summer’s devastating Victorian bushfires have returned to their natural habitat. The 14 koalas, injured in the East Gippsland bushfires in January, have been treated at ...

At least a billion animals have died in the eastern Australian bushfires, but Dr Palmer said the number of invertebrates that have been killed was estimated to be "many magnitudes" higher.

As the east coast bushfire crisis finally abates, it’s easy to see nothing but loss: more than 11 million hectares of charcoal and ash, and more than a billion dead animals. But it is heartening ...

The smoke generated by bushfires choked Australia’s eastern cities and towns for weeks on end, triggering spikes in emergency department presentations for breathing problems.

Thousands of people could be trapped by Australia's raging bushfires after they did not heed evacuation warnings. Authorities urged people to leave the area of East Gippsland, where there are ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Fresh evacuation warnings were issued on Friday for dozens of rural Australian towns as around 1,000 firefighters battled a bushfire in Victoria state which has destroyed ...

An uncontained bushfire raging in Australia's Victoria state that has prompted an evacuation order for hundreds of residents will burn for several days, officials said on Sunday. The order to ...

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities on Thursday to leave home "immediately" to escape an out-of-control bushfire tearing through a national park. About 600 ...