Sydney Morning Herald chief photographer Nick Moir has joined NSW RFS members and thousands of firefighters from across the US who are attempting to slow the destructive progress of the raging California Fire Park fires.
At the site where an Allied landing was beaten back by Ottoman troops in 1915,the flames reached Canterbury Cemetery,where 22 soldiers from New Zealand are interred.
The CFA rejected the medical opinions of six experts and cut compensation to a traumatised firefighter based on the assessment of one dissenting psychiatrist.
Sydneysiders and a host of enterprising locals are keen to reinvent a NSW country town that was almost wiped off the map.
Essential Energy,the electricity distributor that covers 95 per cent of NSW,is switching to composite poles to make its network more resilient in bushfires.
Is it time the government rethinks its prescribed burning practices? New research says it’s making forests more flammable,not less,but the state stands firm.
Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital,a registered charity,has treated more than 7000 creatures since it opened in October 2020.
In coming weeks,the DBCA will start torching 200,000 hectares of the state to boost our defences in the face of increasing bushfires. But is it causing irreparable damage to our ecosystems?
A bushfire wiped out one-third of the tiny Grampians town of Pomonal 12 weeks ago. The town knew about resilience before the fire hit,and now it’s putting it into action.
Seal pups and fledgling penguins could suffer sunburn and skin cancer,and it’s all down to volcanoes and bushfires.
Hazard-reduction burns are designed to clear undergrowth and reduce the risk of large-scale bushfires. But the science is far from settled.