The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

A reported delay in sending emergency alerts and poor mobile reception in regional NSW are among issues examined by a coronial inquiry into the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires.

The Rural Fire Service agrees a report into the Grose Valley fire should clearly state it was the accidental result of backburning.

It’s been a tough couple of years for Australian farmers. Just months after Black Summer’s devastation, the pandemic struck. Catastrophic floods soon followed. African Swine Fever and foot and mouth on our doorstep pose an enormous threat, as do the more banal issues of inflation and labour shortages.

UK researchers reveal Australia's Black Summer bushfires likely damaged the ozone layer and caused the highest temperatures in the stratosphere in 30 years.

A new koala hospital has opened at Werribee Open Range Zoo, funded by donations to the RSPCA and Zoos Victoria following the Black Summer bushfire crisis

The Black Summer bushfires caused the largest stratospheric warming since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, new research suggests.

Scientists say it will cost $16 billion each year to partially restore the environmental damage done by the Black Summer bushfires.

Unexpected sightings of koalas near the Blue Mountains give hope that a disease-free colony is recovering after the Black Summer bushfires.

Australia's threatened species list just got longer with the addition of a striking black cockatoo and an alpine lizard hit hard in the Black Summer fires.