Australia Wildfires

Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia’s weather an almost Biblical feel this year.

Lawmakers have commemorated wildfire victims and praised the heroism of firefighters in Australia’s Parliament as hundreds of protesters rallied outside demanding more policy action on climate change

What started as a small fundraiser in a Terryville High School classroom turned into a multi-town effort to raise money for wildfire relief efforts in Australia. Terryville High School’s mascot is the kangaroo, so math teacher Jessica Hurd came up with the idea for students to raise money for WIRES Australian Wildlife Rescue Organization and NSW Rural Fire Service....

Australia’s capital and its surrounds have declared a state of emergency because of an out-of-control forest fire burning erratically to its south

The bodies of three U.S. flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire crisis have been retrieved

Three Americans died Thursday when their aerial water tanker crashed as they were fighting fires in southeastern Australia.

Australia’s forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent. Heat waves and drought have fueled bigger and more frequent fires in parts of Australia, so far this season torching some 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers), an area about...

Taylor is part of a group of dogs who are trained to smell koala fur and rescue injured ones from Australi’s brushfires.

Australia’s unprecedented wildfires season has so far charred 40,000 square miles (104,000 square kilometers) of brushland, rainforests, and national parks — killing by one estimate more than a billion wild animals. Scientists fear some of the island continent’s unique and colorful species may not recover. For others, they are trying to throw lifelines....

Where flames have subsided, biologists are starting to...

A baby koala named “Hope” has left his mother’s pouch at Zoo Miami. It is the first baby koala born in captivity at the zoo in 30 years.

UPDATE: As of January 15, the students have collected more than $2,000 in donations. Kangaroos helping kangaroos. That’s the idea behind a local high school fundraiser for Australia. Students in Terryville are donating to help firefighters and wildlife, and they hope you’ll give too. Inside a classroom at Terryville High School, students are taking papers with kangaroos printed on them…

Thousands of crafters worldwide are churning out swaddling wraps for bats, hanging enclosures for kangaroos, and cozy pouches for wallabies. They hope to help wildlife harmed in the Australian wildfires. But there’s confusion over whether the items are really needed or will be used.

Ash Graham’s dog, Kozi, wakes him at 8 a.m., eager for his morning walk. Then Graham realizes he was dreaming, and gets up from the one-man tent he’s been sleeping in each night since a wildfire swept through his village on New Year’s Eve.

Crews battling Australia’s wildfires said Sunday that they have been able to turn from defense to offense for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather.

Amid the horrors of the country’s worst bushfires ever, and amid disputes over their cause and fear of what is yet to come, Australians have organized a series of grassroots disaster-relief networks — many through social media — offering a wide range of help to thousands of people who were displaced in recent weeks, NBC News reports. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses…

Wildfires in Australia have burned more than 32,000 square miles since September. That is an area of land a little smaller than Indiana and larger than the entire state of Connecticut. The unprecedented flames have killed a billion animals, 27 people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes.  You can compare the size of the wildfires to your home state or…

The unprecedented fires in Australia have killed a billion animals, 27 people and destroyed more than 1,000 homes.

The wildfires have scorched an area twice the size of the U.S. state of Maryland, killed at least 25 people and destroyed 2,000 homes. The fires, fueled by drought and the country’s hottest and driest year on record, have been raging since September, months earlier than is typical for Australia’s annual wildfire season.

Communities across Australia’s fire-ravaged southeast were bracing for a long day of mounting danger on Friday as thousands abandon their homes for evacuation centers and military helicopters dropped emergency supplies to towns at risk of being isolated by blazes fanned by rising winds.

Inside a classroom at Terryville High School, students are taking papers with kangaroos printed on them and cutting them out. With each snip of the scissors and for every donated dollar, their voices are getting louder.