Bushfire

In response to the Nanga Bushfire, Australian Red Cross has launched the Register.Find.Reunite. service. Australian Red Cross Jennifer Pidgeon said being separated from family and friends is one of the most stressful things a person can experience during an emergency. “Not knowing where your loved ones are, and not being…

For farmer Calvin Royce a bushfire is nothing new, and neither are his thoughts of "looking at it thinking, 'How am I going to do this?'"  Like many volunteers, he downs tools at the sight of smoke and joins the effort to fight them. But last summer brought a new…

By Eliza Mcphee and Ashley Nickel For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press Published: 00:24 BST, 28 February 2024 | Updated: 12:32 BST, 28 February 2024 Advertisement Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of the bushfire crisis in Victoria. The Bayindeen bushfire, northwest of Ballarat, was still raging on…

Some communities in western part of Victoria state advised to evacuate PUBLISHED : 24 Feb 2024 at 18:51 A Country Fire Authority team carries out a controlled burn west of Corryong in Victoria state of Australia on Jan 7, 2020. (File Photo State Control Centre Media/News Corp Australia via Reuters)…

Andrew Merry | Moment | Getty Images A bushfire in Australia's Victoria state raged out of control on Saturday, with authorities issuing a fresh evacuation alert at the highest danger rating for hundreds of residents in the state's west. The emergency warning followed the downgrading on Saturday of another bushfire,…

Huge bushfires in central Australia have ignited discussions about the role of buffel grass in increasing fire risks ahead of a recommendation on whether or not the plant should be declared a weed in the Northern Territory. Key points: A debate continues into the role of buffel grass in causing intense fires in central Australia…

The manager of a vast Central Australian cattle station said more than 60 per cent had been burnt by a massive bushfire that raged through the 1,400 square kilometre property east of Alice Springs.  Key points: Some 33 million hectares of land has been burnt by bushfires in Northern Territory this…

A New York couple is in mourning after their only child died in a plane crash in Queensland, Australia, over the weekend. William Jennings, 22, and two others were killed on Saturday when a firefighting plane they were on that was being used to track bushfires crashed in a remote…

The world no longer has the gastric-brooding frog, the pig-footed bandicoot or the blue-tailed skink in the wild. But these Australian species didn't disappear 100 years ago – the losses are much more recent. To raise awareness of what has so recently been lost, biologist Tim Low has co-authored a report that lists,…

Almost every person in NSW and Queensland was hit with a natural disaster in the past 12 months, research has revealed, prompting calls for all levels of government to sink more money into safeguarding important infrastructure and consider moving residents to safer areas. Ahead of what is expected to be…