have grossly inadequate defensible space and are thus at high risk from bushfires. Also concerning is that many older homes in southern Australia lack features such as guards to stop embers ...

Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne It’s hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire.

Most bushfires are started by human carelessness ... the people by not even acknowledging climate change. COULD we all stop trying to point-score while a national emergency is occurring and ...

Bushfires broke out yesterday in western Victoria ... However, someone with a respiratory condition might need to decrease or stop outdoor activities at this point. If the air quality is "very ...

What can be done to stop them? Lots of things can be done to make houses safer and lower the risk of damage from bushfires. People are moved to relief centres if their houses are at risk of being ...

It's almost summer and for most of the country that means the threat of bushfire looms large. We think of them as 'natural disasters' - but half of Australian bushfires are either suspicious or ...