The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

High fire danger expected for prolonged period across state in first time since black summer bushfires, RFS says

While one fire has been downgraded from emergency level, the heightened risk is expected to remain this evening for a fire that has burnt through 635ha near Bathurst.

Around 30 schools are closed in New South Wales with temperatures set to reach well into the 30s, and more than 40 degrees Celsius in some areas, in heatwave conditions expected to last up to several days.

NSW Rural Fire Service declares total fire ban in Queanbeyan-Palerang and Goulburn

It took six hours to rescue workers from an underground refuge after a fire broke out at the Augusta Mine in Costerfield.

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