Vast swaths of southeastern Australia are sweltering in a heat wave that’s pushed temperatures to close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) and forced some residents to protect their ...

Local authorities say factors such as the dry landscape and climate change contributed to intense fires during an early ...

Parts of Australia were sweltered in record temperatures of close to 122 degrees as the country sweated through a prolonged ...

Temperatures in parts of Melbourne exceeded 45 deg C. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

By Christine Chen SYDNEY, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A record-breaking heatwave baked Australia's southeast for a fifth straight day ...

Firefighters in Victoria are battling at least six major fires amid a record-breaking heatwave.

With rising levels of climate change, Australia has been one of the worst-affected nations in the world. And just like in ...

By Renju Jose and Christine Chen SYDNEY, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A major heatwave across Australia's southeast stoked bushfires, forced hundreds of residents in rural towns to evacuate and brought ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- A new visualization from NASA shows how the smoke plume from the Australian wildfires has traveled across the globe over the past several weeks. The visualization from the Earth ...