The distinctive smell of smoke in summer is often all you need to know there is a bushfire burning. Even if the fire is many kilometers away, the drop in air quality can be harmful for your health.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help transform how we understand and respond to the escalating threat of bushfires. We start this journey with the first imagery now available from the proto satellite ...

Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside. Temperatures ...

Australian public health authorities have been urged to prepare for a possible increase in severe COVID-19 cases during the local bushfire season, following a QUT-led study that suggests there was a ...

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Australia has a well-established national wildfire warning system, so how does this compare with the UK’s approach?

A Legislative Council Environment and Planning Committee report into the devastating 2026 Victorian bushfires has been tabled in parliament. The committee had been looking into a number of issues ...

People living close to a gold mine about 130km southeast of Perth have been told it is 'too late to leave' after an out-of-control bushfire has raged for days. An emergency warning was put in place on ...

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