Researchers say ‘massacres’ of Aboriginals ended cultural burning practices that made woodlands more resistant ...

British colonisers thought they were protecting forests by stopping Indigenous burning. It’s now backfiring - Colonisation led to fourfold increase in eucalyptus tree cover and transformed landscape f ...

Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices ...

The researchers found that colonialisation drove cascading changes: increased fire temperature, a four-fold increase in eucalypt cover, transformation from an open woodland to forest, and increased ...

Australia’s seasonal bushfire outlook for winter 2026 has been released by the Australian and New Zealand National Council for fire and emergency services (AFAC) and it predicts increased fire risk ...

The study, published on Thursday by the University of Melbourne, found long-term environmental shifts should not be blamed on ...

Australian firefighters said Friday they were fighting to control a bushfire racing through a national park that has consumed an area the size of Singapore. The eastern state of Victoria has faced ...

Sentinel-2 detects changes in the way vegetation reflects light as it gains or loses moisture. The new tool translates these ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help transform how we understand and respond to the escalating threat of bushfires. We start this journey with the first imagery now available from the proto satellite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan tour the fire-damaged town of Harcourt in Victoria ...

Researchers from the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, reconstructed the past 1,000 years of vegetation, fire and erosion in ...