Right now, on the outskirts of a hyper modern first world megapolis, at the end of a year in which the public seemed finally to wake up to the dramatic threat from global warming, a climate disaster ...

The 2019-20 New South Wales summer season was the worst fire season that NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) has ever faced. Off the back of that period, the NSW RFS realised it needed greater operational ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Dramatic video released by an Australian fire service shows the moment one of its fire trucks was overwhelmed by advancing bush fires. The video, posted on Twitter by Fire and Rescue New South Wales, ...

But the Google Earth vegetation map also reveals pockets of green where wildlife may have taken refuge during the fires, pointing the way for scientists and wildlife carers to help animals and plants ...