The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

The Black Summer bushfires devastated parts of the Eurobodalla region in New South Wales. Then earlier this year, the area was hit by floods. As climate change threatens to bring more severe and frequent extreme weather events, how can we help future-proof such communities?

The NSW bushfires coronial inquiry is looking into the cause of a major Black Summer bushfire that destroyed 10 homes in the state's central west.

The NSW bushfires coronial inquiry has heard sparks from a welder started a major Black Summer bushfire.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Donna Ward SC, said part of the blaze spread across 11 kilometres in one day, considered "extreme and anomalous" fire behaviour at the time.

The long-running NSW coronial inquiry into the Black Summer fires has heard lightning caused a 171,000 hectare bushfire in the Hunter Valley.

Researchers hope a new type of nesting box will help the greater glider population recover after the Black Summer bushfires destroyed their habitat.

Small communities of five rare plants have been found in Australia's subalpine region allaying fears the Black Summer fires had wiped them out forever.

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.

After the 2019 drought and Black Summer bushfires, a group of farmers in the Canberra region decided to do things differently. And they have formed a community along the way.

Amid a bumper snow season, operators face rising insurance costs of up to 800 per cent as a result of the Black Summer bushfires, which burnt through around 187,000 hectares of the alpine area.

Turquoise parrots were fighting back from the brink of extinction when the Black Summer bushfires wiped out much of their nesting habitat. Small populations in the Snowy Mountains survived by populating unburnt sections of bushland and now the local community is doing everything it can to help them.