CHICAGO (WLS) -- The world's attention is focused on Australia, where more than 200 active bushfires are burning. Most of those are burning along the coast, where more than 85% of the country's ...

Australia's wildfires have burned millions of acres, scorching an area twice the size of Maryland, and killing at least 25 people nationwide. Thousands of firefighters are battling the more than ...

Fierce bushfires are raging on Australia's south-east coast - driven by temperatures close to 40 degrees. Several houses have been destroyed and thousands of hectares of nature have been affected.

One person has died and 300 properties have been destroyed in bushfires that have torn across south-east Australia. The fires have raged in dozens of locations across the country for several days, ...

Frequent bushfires threaten southeastern Australia's alpine ash forests. These trees require fifteen to twenty years to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is more than a decade since Black Saturday. In February 2009 a bushfire ripped through the area surrounding Kinglake, a town ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. As native forest logging ends in parts of Australia, governments and industry are turning to large-scale forest thinning as a tool to reduce ...

South Australia’s worst bush fires in more than 30 years have forced thousands of residents to flee their homes, local media reported Saturday. The state’s top firefighter compared the blazes to the ...

Millions of Aussies could be at risk of catastrophic urban bushfires similar to those that devastated Los Angeles last year, ...