This year's fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential rain, the next a burst of heat, followed by a sharp cold snap.

Australia’s fire preparedness just got smarter, more colourful and easier to access.

University of Queensland researchers have completed the first comprehensive studies of recent fire history and koala ...

SYDNEY -- It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone ...

In a grim video posted on Twitter, a man drives into the fire-ravaged town of Batlow in the Australian state of New South Wales. Both sides of the road are covered with ash and lingering smoke.

During a fire, heat and moisture from the plants are released, even when the fuel is relatively dry. Warm air is less dense than cold air so it rises, releasing the moisture and forming a cloud that ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- A new visualization from NASA shows how the smoke plume from the Australian wildfires has traveled across the globe over the past several weeks. The visualization from the Earth ...

Correction appended: Oct. 24, 2013, 2:05 a.m. E.T. Wildfires are nothing new in Australia, a sunburned country with plenty of vegetation to burn to a crisp when temperatures skyrocket during the ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Many people have already raised money to help fight the devastating wildfires in Australia, and now, there are koalas popping up around New York City to encourage people to ...

Iron-laden nutrients in algae were seen thousands of kilometers away. This is an Inside Science story. The catastrophic wildfires that ravaged Australia during the continent's 2019-20 summer were some ...