Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices ...

Researchers say ‘massacres’ of Aboriginals ended cultural burning practices that made woodlands more resistant ...

The suppression of Indigenous burning practices in Australia after British colonization probably transformed swathes of the ...

Innovative researchers are harnessing the power of 3D printing to construct homes for endangered Australian wildlife. By replicating the natural tree hollows that these species depend on, the new ...

In the face of a super El Niño and climate change, new research emphasises First Nation practices to manage bushfire risk.

British colonisers thought they were protecting forests by stopping Indigenous burning. It’s now backfiring - Colonisation led to fourfold increase in eucalyptus tree cover and transformed landscape f ...

Researchers from the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, reconstructed the past 1,000 years of vegetation, fire and erosion in ...

CANBERRA: Authorities in Australia's Northern Territory (NT) on Wednesday (Sept 16) issued an emergency alert for a bushfire burning south of Darwin, warning unprepared residents to evacuate ...

Australia’s bushfire emergency has sparked an online disinformation campaign “unprecedented” in the country’s history, researchers told AFP Friday, with bots deployed to shift blame for the blazes ...

The 2026-27 bushfire season began on Thursday in Australia's Australian Capital Territory (ACT), with authorities warning residents to prepare for heightened fire risks amid forecasts of a hot summer.

SYDNEY, Jan 11 – Human remains were found in Australia’s southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, police said on ...

Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heat wave ...