SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Canadian-owned C-130 Hercules air tanker crashed while fighting bushfires in Australia's alpine region on Thursday, killing all three of its crew, authorities said. The victims ...

Australian authorities declared a state of disaster on Saturday after bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in the country's southeast. Temperatures soared past 40C as a heatwave ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Australia isn’t what the world thought it was. A country that markets itself on the basis of its wide-open blue skies, azure waters and huggable wildlife is suddenly presenting ...

Under the new Australia emergency alert system, alerts to be sent for bushfires, floods, biosecurity threats and other events which put lives at risk ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pixabay/Pexels, CC BY Over the past decade, southern Australia has suffered numerous extreme weather and climate events, such as ...

Australia’s bushfires are fierce. Some can spread faster than a sprinting human. Here, a Bell UH-1 Huey fights the blaze. Water plunges from the sky. Smoke swirls. Heat rises. Every drop counts. This ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Firefighters warned millions of Australians of “catastrophic” bushfire dangers on Thursday as they battled multiple blazes stoked by a heat wave blanketing the country.