Brendan Sokaluk,a former Country Fire Authority volunteer,was freed on Tuesday after serving 15 years for deliberately lighting a blaze in the Latrobe Valley.
Forecast extreme heat,high winds and dry lightning mean Wednesday will be “a very dangerous and difficult day across Victoria”,Premier Jacinta Allan said.
The Bushfire Building Council of Australia has developed free architectural-designed plans to protect your house. Just lock up and leave,the house will look after itself.
The lack of meaningful emissions-reduction targets by both major parties indicates that future generations will be locked into climate warming above 1.5 degrees.
In a rapidly warming climate,the recent welcome,replenishing rains are a double-edged sword. What grows fast can also easily,and quickly,dry out then burn.
The world is moving ahead of Australia - and both its major political parties - on climate change. It’s an opportunity for independents at the next federal election.
In the midst of the Black Summer,'Bear,the hero koala dog'found international fame. But behind every successful man is a strong woman – this is her story.
Environmentalists have raised the alarm over logging near the habitat of a rare frog in East Gippsland that was long thought extinct until it was rediscovered five years ago.
Australia’s unprecedented summer of hell was barely over when California was ablaze. As experts warn of worse to come,one of our most outspoken former fire commissioners reflects on a new age of overlapping catastrophes.
Emergency service employees are told they are just public servants like everyone else. But a retired firefighter argues it is far from a normal job."We are there to help those Australians who are having the worst or last day of their life."
The coronavirus has torpedoed the world economy,with travel both a vector for – and a victim of – an historic event that appears to have no end in sight.