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Australia is currently experiencing one of the most devastating fires in the country’s history, as bush fires blaze in all six states across the continent. To date, over 14.7 million acres have burned ...

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Tourists are being warned to be wary of dingoes when visiting a popular camping spot after disturbing footage emerged of a tourist being nipped by the wild animal while sunbathing. The shocking ...

“Smell that?” My husband gave me a look as we waited by Sydney Airport’s luggage carousel. It was smoke, not unpleasant, like a distant neighbor’s wood fire, but persistent and odd in a place that’s ...

Even in Australia, Porepunkah is a town few would have heard of before this week. Fewer still could pronounce it. Nestled at the base of densely wooded mountains in the Australian Alps, it is home to ...

The extreme bush fires that blazed across southeastern Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 released 715 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air—more than double the emissions previously ...

Former First Lady Laura Bush kicks off the National Parks centennial with a "no-glamping" visit to Yosemite Sandra Sobieraj Westfall is a former national political correspondent, digital writer and ...

Australia’s catastrophic bush fires have been widely blamed on human-caused climate change, but evidence is mounting that the devastation has more to do with environmentalist policies than fossil fuel ...

Australian police on Wednesday identified a suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third as the search for the shooter entered day two in a vast, remote rural area in ...

Campers on Moreton Island, off the coast of south-east Queensland, have been evacuated and nearby residents told to prepare to leave as a large, out-of-control bushfire burns in the island's north.

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