Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evacuation orders were in place for dozens of towns in Victoria, on Friday, January 9, as two major bushfires ravaged the area, ...

Firefighters are continuing to battle a bushfire that spread rapidly towards properties in Victoria's Otways this weekend. The Carlisle River fire spread to within a kilometre of the town of ...

Australia is in the grip of one of the worst environmental disasters in history. The bushfires have consumed over 15 million acres, taken the lives of at least 27 people, and it is estimated that over ...

An emergency relief centre has opened for people who fled an out-of-control bushfire which earlier threatened lives in three central Victorian towns. The fire started in inaccessible terrain around ...

When heavy rainfall eventually extinguishes the flames ravaging south-east Australia, another ecological threat will arise. Sediment, ash and debris washing into our waterways, particularly in the ...

Kiwi pilot Henry Phelps has gone from wilderness flying in New Zealand to helping combat Australia's devastating bushfires. Working with his brother to control the fires from the air has been an ...