The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

The Greater Hunter including Cessnock, Dungog, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Newcastle, Port Stephens, Singleton and the Upper Hunter has been placed under an extreme fire rating.

Sydney baked through its hottest day in two years while bushfires in NSW's west sparked emergency warnings for two communities.

Scottish Fire Service crews rushed to Restalrig Park after receiving reports of a massive blaze at 1.30pm.

“I have seen the devastating results of fires many times over a long career"

The vast boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere stretch from Scandinavia through Siberia, Alaska and Canada. They cover a tenth of the world’s land but hold one-third of the land’s carbon, stored mainly in organic-rich soils and in trees. Now, a new study in the journal Science provides further evidence…

Smoke from wildfires that burned frosty, northern forests of North America and Eurasia in 2021 contributed the most to global fire carbon emissions since 2000, according to a new study

For five of the past six years, heavy smoke from nearby wildfires has engulfed vineyards full of grapes that Ashley Egelhoff depends on to produce her wine.

ACT Parks and Conservation will conduct backburning in the Molonglo Valley, near Kama Nature Reserve, in the Hughes Garran Woodlands, while the ACT Rural Fire Service will conduct burns on Point Hut Road in Gordon.

Interstate backup has been called in to fight two large, out-of-control bushfires on the Western Downs firefighters suspect are the work of arsonists.