Bushfires and wildfires

map of fires in the Amazon

More than 300,000 fires have burned more than 80 million hectares and claimed hundreds of lives across South America this year, reports Ben Radford.

Fireproof Australia climate action

Climate activist Jay Larbalestier was resentenced聽after police were found to have provided false information in his arrest at a climate protest in April last year.聽Susan Price聽reports.

Canada fires

Canada's fires have already burned more than eight million hectares of land, severely impacting Indigenous communities already struggling to protect their land, reports Jeff Shantz.

Up from ashes we rise

This poetry and prose anthology book was conceived in the wake of New Mexico's worst natural disaster in written history, writes聽Bill Nevins.

FIre Weather

John Vaillant 鈥 who may be the contemporary Hunter S Thompson of environmental journalists 鈥 has seen our Earth鈥檚 future up close and personal, and it is a fearsome, firey 鈥渂east鈥, writes Bill Nevins.

Forest fire

Fires swept through large rural areas of New Mexico in April and May, destroying farms, ranches, homesteads and vast stretches of mountain forest, reports Bill Nevins.

As residents along Australia鈥檚 east coast were smashed by unprecedented floods, the PM聽was talking up the need for聽more submarines, missiles and聽other military hardware, writes聽Dave Holmes.

School Strike 4 Climate organised a solidarity action with flood victims,聽criticising聽the federal government for ignoring the link between climate change and extreme weather events. Rachel Evans reports.

Without pressure, governments will likely continue their greenwashing while we suffer deadly floods and extreme heatwaves,聽writes John Molyneux.

Never have so many heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the past week鈥檚 historic heat wave in western North America, report Bob Henson and Jeff Masters.

It would be easy聽to save koalas from extinction聽by saving their habitat.聽But will the NSW government do it?聽Jim McIlroy reports.

A parliamentary inquiry into the New South Wales government鈥檚 council grants scandal will be expanded to scrutinise new allegations of pork barrelling connected to聽 bushfire relief funding, reports Jim McIllroy.