The Staggering Scale of Emptiness 6 million square kilometres in 2023. After Antarctica, Australia has the lowest population ...

University of Queensland researchers have completed the first comprehensive studies of recent fire history and koala ...

Decades of progress in protecting the planet’s carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to ...

Around the world, extreme fires have been on the rise since the turn of the millennium. In 2023 alone, 26 million hectares of forest were burned.

MELBOURNE — As flames engulfed swaths of Los Angeles County this month and U.S. fire authorities scrambled to coordinate help from overseas, one longtime firefighting partner was left off their list: ...

like more frequent droughts and fires.” Now, at least one region’s rainforests have reached a tipping point. Australia’s rainforests are the first in the world to switch from being a net carbon sink ...

Several European nations such as Italy, France, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain have in recent months struggled to cope ...

Australia's wildfires have burned millions of acres, scorching an area twice the size of Maryland, and killing at least 25 people nationwide. Thousands of firefighters are battling the more than ...

These tropical forest CO₂ emissions may warn of similar shifts in other regions, a key topic for COP30 climate talks in Brazil.

Ms. Badham is an Australian journalist who wrote from Ballarat, Australia. Oh, California. We Australians have been watching your burning nightmare unfold with the sad realization that you are now ...