The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

The 2019-2020 bushfire season was devastating. Vast areas of pristine forest burned, many for the first time in memory. By some estimates, a billion native animals died up and down Australia’s east coast. Dozens of people died.

Wildlife experts are surprised to see animal populations recovering across eastern Australia following the devastating Black Summer bushfires.

A coronial inquiry into one of the devastating Black Summer bushfires has been postponed again to accommodate some participants' changed availability.

A coronial inquiry into one of the devastating Black Summer bushfires is due to resume following months of delays.

The families of the US firefighters killed during the Black Summer fires have remembered them as dedicated servicemen and loving dads, uncles and husbands.

A NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer changed his radio log after a large air tanker crashed in the Snowy Mountains during the Black Summer bushfires, a coronial inquest has heard.

Delaneys Hut in Kosciuszko National Park was among historic buildings destroyed in the Black Summer bushfires, but a descendant of the original builder, who shares the same name, is helping to resurrect the shelter.

Australia's Black Summer bushfires damaged the ozone layer so badly that 50 years of improvements achieved by banning substances that destroyed ozone were temporarily wiped out, new research says.

PARIS: Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said Wednesday, raising fears that increasing forest fires could delay the recovery of Earth's atmospheric protection against deadly UV radiation.