Australia is facing a nationwide crisis as record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought have fueled an unprecedented number of fires burning in five states. More than 15.6 million ...

On Saturday morning local time, 62 bush and grass fires were burning in NSW, a state on the south-eastern side of Australia, according to the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS).

Days of rain will bring some much-needed relief to Australia's firefighters, but it won't be enough to fully alleviate the threat of more than 140 fires that were still burning.

Following a devastating early start to the summer fire season in Australia, wildfires fueled by wind and scorching heat have continued to burn across the southeast, where most of the country’s ...

Map: Where are the fires burning in Australia? Authorities have said this season's fires are the worst in Australia's history and that the crisis is likely to last for months.

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen ...

A fire tracker map maintained by researchers in Western Australia shows that they are also threatening areas around every major city in the country.

Fourteen fires are classified as active. The rest are contained, according to the Florida Forest Service. What is the largest brush fire burning in Florida March 21? The largest fire burning in ...

Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to ...

An animation shows the scale of wildfires that have been burning in Australia's Northern Territory over the last two months. Dr Robbi Bishop-Taylor of Geoscience Australia posted the timelapse on ...

Two decades of satellite data have allowed us to map fires across the country and identify areas facing high fire risks. Fire activity has increased in several major regions over the past decade.