The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

Australia's Black Summer bushfires damaged the ozone layer so badly that 50 years of improvements achieved by banning substances that destroyed ozone were temporarily wiped out, new research says.

PARIS: Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said Wednesday, raising fears that increasing forest fires could delay the recovery of Earth's atmospheric protection against deadly UV radiation.

Firefighters battled to save properties overnight in regional NSW amid the state's greatest bushfire risk since the deadly Black Summer bushfires.

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 were cataclysmic: a landmark in Australia’s environmental history. They burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly forests in southeast Australia. Many of our most distinctive, ancient and vulnerable species were worst affected.

Running major overhead power lines above bush and farms will significantly increase fire risk for those hit by the Black Summer blazes, a report says.

The Australian Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 were unspeakably grim. Twenty-four million hectares were burnt, 33 people died, and over a billion animals perished.

A new study has offered a glimpse of hope for researchers battling to conserve the endangered southern greater glider.

The Badja Forest Road fire ripped through Cobargo on New Year's Eve and took several lives, parts of the main street and hundreds of houses with it.

Told entirely by local voices, the stories reveal the grit of the community when three years ago this week, Braidwood was under siege from the Black Range fire.