The world is moving ahead of Australia - and both its major political parties - on climate change. It’s an opportunity for independents at the next federal election.
In the midst of the Black Summer,'Bear,the hero koala dog'found international fame. But behind every successful man is a strong woman – this is her story.
Environmentalists have raised the alarm over logging near the habitat of a rare frog in East Gippsland that was long thought extinct until it was rediscovered five years ago.
Australia’s unprecedented summer of hell was barely over when California was ablaze. As experts warn of worse to come,one of our most outspoken former fire commissioners reflects on a new age of overlapping catastrophes.
Emergency service employees are told they are just public servants like everyone else. But a retired firefighter argues it is far from a normal job."We are there to help those Australians who are having the worst or last day of their life."
The coronavirus has torpedoed the world economy,with travel both a vector for – and a victim of – an historic event that appears to have no end in sight.
Financial counsellors are warning bushfires and the unfolding coronavirus pandemic could cause a surge of desperate people taking out predatory loans.
As the cost of this summer's blazes begins to rival that of Victoria's Black Saturday fires,a survey has found climate change is the number one concern of insurance firms.
It is atop a narrow road running along a ridgeline a few kilometres out of Kinglake that things start to get really,really scary.
The questions raised by this summer’s diabolical blazes are not simple. Nor should the answers be.
What makes a person from the burbs bolt towards a raging fire as everyone else flees?