Australia’s disastrous 2019-2020 fire season blew so much smoke into the upper atmosphere that it blocked sunlight from reaching Earth’s surface, potentially causing a brief global cooling effect ...

The size of the wildfires would cover a large portion of the United States. The raging fires in Australia have burned over 12.35 million acres of land -- with at least 24 people killed and more than 2 ...

Australia’s devastating recent wildfires thrust as much smoke into the Earth’s atmosphere as a powerful volcanic eruption, causing cooling over the region’s oceans with potentially long-lasting ...

In November 2019, Luke Summerscales and Jessica Jacobs were in a remote mountain range of New South Wales, fighting some of the worst bushfires on record in Australia, when another disaster struck: a ...

Australian scientists have used a powerful new telescope to map about 3 million galaxies at record-breaking speed – creating what they say is a “Google Map of the universe.” The Australian Square ...