Funding for a fire mapping service across the top half of Australia is due to end on 30 June, with this week’s Federal ...

National mega-developer KB Home is marketing Dixon Trail as the first purpose-built “ wildfire resilient neighborhood ” in ...

The arrest has heightened public calls for stricter surveillance and preventative measures in fire-prone regions of the park ... of a cup of English tea to Australia’s Houdini dachshund ...

NAFI also produces burnt-area maps that are updated throughout the year. NAFI is the only service that provides critical fire information over the 80% (remote/regional) of Australia where 99.3% of ...

Australia is prone to drought partly because ... northern New South Wales (where in some regions, 1946 was the worst year of all). It wasn’t until 1947 that significant general rains ended the long ...

An exception is for extremely cold nights in parts of south-east and south-west Australia, where the frequency of frost in these parts has been relatively unchanged since the 1980s. In this region ...

Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather ...

Over the past forty years, simultaneous fire-weather days in the two regions have increased by roughly one per year. The ...

Climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires in many regions of the world. This is due partly to specific weather conditions – known as fire weather – that facilitate the spread of wildfires.