An analysis of lake sediments in south-eastern Australia has revealed that the expulsion of Indigenous communities in the ...

Highly flammable eucalypt forests now cover much of southeastern Australia. The scale and lasting impact of the 2019–2020 Black Summer fires, which burned more than 24 million hectares, demonstrate ...

Scientists have blamed Captain Cook for Australia's recent wave of deadly mega-fires, more than 250 years after the British ...

Colonial land-use change may have helped fuel Australia's current wildfire crisis, according to a new study from environmental researchers in the UK ...

A 1,000-year palaeoecological record shows that colonial disruption of Gunaikurnai cultural burning transformed open ...

Climate change is making wildfires more dangerous but heat alone does not decide how a landscape burns. Fuel, vegetation and ...

Hundreds lined up to call loved ones as the internet went down and the flames closed in on the Australian town of Narooma in ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic brought human activity to a standstill around the world in the first half of 2020, wildfire ...