11 hours ago · Across the country the worst bushfires in the nation’s recorded history burned the equivalent of half of Germany – 18.6million hectares. This is two and a half times the size of the apocalyptic fires that burned the Amazon in 2019. Australia’s losses included 21% of its temperate forests, well over three billion wild animals.

Oct 26, 2023 · Australia's most serious bushfire season since its so-called "Black Summer" has turned fatal. As more than 100 fires burned across the country on Thursday, Queensland officials said two people...

2 days ago · This is what it's like fighting Australia's worst bushfires in memory Photo shows A family smiles at the camera I've been a firefighter for 20 years and these fires have delivered the worst ...

Jan 31, 2020 · At least 33 people have been killed - including four firefighters - and more than 11 million hectares (110,000 sq km or 27.2 million acres) of bush, forest and parks across Australia has burned....

Up to 19 million hectares were burnt, with 12.6 million hectares primarily forest and bushland. 33 lives were lost and around 3,094 homes destroyed. Early in January 2020, WWF estimated that at that time, 1.25 billion animals had been killed.

Feb 15, 2021 · Australia’s 2019–2020 ‘Black Summer’ bushfires burnt more than 8 million hectares of vegetation across the south-east of the continent, an event unprecedented in the last 200 years. Here we...

Apr 28, 2020 · Australia experienced the worst bushfire season ever in 2019-2020 with fires blazing for months in large parts of the country. So what was it like living near them? We've been to find out.

1 day ago · A bushfire that has been burning in South Australia's Flinders Ranges for the past month has been brought under control. The SA Country Fire Service (CFS) said the blaze started on February 3 and ...

Feb 26, 2025 · The oldest-known Huon pine in the world, thought to be 3,000 years old, has survived a bushfire on Tasmania's west coast. New aerial images show how the fire came within metres of the stand of ...

Catastrophic and unprecedented bushfires in Australia have killed more than 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and burned hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, causing massive devastation to wildlife, ecosystems and the environment.