Snapping a picture on your next bushwalk could help predict and prevent devastating bushfires, thanks to a new innovative mobile phone app, NOBURN, powered by AI developed by University of Adelaide ...
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.
Australia's bushfire season is officially under way during an El Niño. And after three wet years, and the plant growth that comes with it, there's fuel to burn. With the prospect of catastrophic ...
Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for flames to spread across the landscape. But sometimes the relationship flips: ...
The residents of Canberra might know a little about what Los Angeles is going through. Exactly 22 years ago, a wildfire became a devastating urban fire in the Australian capital. On Jan. 18, 2003, ...
The Australian summer has started to unleash its power. On Monday, the Victorian town of Walpeup reached 47.1°C, and towns in Queensland, western New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern ...
The latest seasonal bushfire outlook predicts an increased risk of fires in parts of the Great Sandy Desert and surrounds in WA and central and northern parts of NSW. Unusually hot and dry autumn ...
Three small flecks, barely perceptible, scar the front deck of Ivan and Pam Walker's Tasmanian home. Left by embers, they are the home's only signs of a bushfire that five months earlier raged through ...
Queensland firefighters are racing against the clock to prepare for a heightened bushfire season. A year of record-breaking rain across large parts of the state has increased fuel loads and recent wet ...
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