The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Firefighters tackle massive blaze in Dundee as roads in city centre blocked off

The well developed fire is believed to have started in an abandoned building just after 6pm.

Daily Record · Nov 12, 2022

Koala escapes flames with fractured foot: RFS warns of grass fires this summer

THERE are serious concerns for the koala population around Salamander Bay after a fire tore through the Mambo Wetlands. Kyrie the koala was lucky to survive.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 9, 2022

Mambo Wetlands bushfire: wind change key to keeping fire under control

A FIRE which reached the rear of several properties at Salamander Bay on Tuesday will be monitored carefully while water bombing helicopters attempt to douse the flames.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 8, 2022

Ore. residents agog at wildfire warning

Homeowners fear the state will devalue their properties by publicizing their fire risk

Salon · Nov 4, 2022

Climate change hampers fire reduction efforts after successful decade in Kimberley

In the 2000s wildfires raged in the Kimberley until a huge increase in planned burning reduced their impact. But climate change means that success is far from guaranteed into the future.

ABC News · Nov 4, 2022

House fire in Farrer closes road

The street was closed in both directions.

The Canberra Times · Nov 2, 2022

Healthy Country plan to save glossy black cockatoos underway in Shoalhaven

Aboriginal custodians take a leading role as they work with the NSW government to rehabilitate crucial habitat for the glossy black cockatoo.

ABC News · Nov 1, 2022

Fires blazing across Top End amid heatwave, lightning strikes

Across the Northern Territory, thousands of square kilometres of parched savanna and grazing land have been reduced to ashes as bushfires spread rapidly amid another heatwave and weeks of ongoing electrical storms.

ABC News · Oct 31, 2022

How 1970s conservation laws turned this ‘paradise on Earth’ into a tinderbox

Southeast Australia’s bushfire crisis culminated in the devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020 that burnt nearly 25 million hectares of bush.

The Conversation · Oct 31, 2022

'Burn boss' arrest inflames Western land use tensions

A ranching family in Oregon is applauding the arrest of the leader of a U.S. Forest Service crew that carried out a prescribed burn in a national forest that spread onto the family’s property

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022