The number of people stung by red fire ants in Australia has increased significantly in past weeks, with 23 people requiring ...

There's a terrifying but good reason why you have to alert a flight attendant if you drop your phone down the side of a plane ...

A team from La Trobe University unveiled their Wine Industry Smoke Detectors (aka wizards) that are a decade in the making.

Most older Australians recently surveyed by Flinders University would not follow the Country Fire Services' advice regarding ...

Volunteer firefighters and their support staff have travelled more than 1,000 kilometres to help small towns fighting fires ...

In neighbouring Victoria state, a home was destroyed in a bushfire on the outskirts of Melbourne that was being battled by ...

The section of Australia Fair Shopping Centre in Southport on the Gold Coast where a fire broke out on Monday, March 10, 2025. Picture: Andrew Potts The acrid smell of the electrical fire is still ...

Climate change is predicted to increase the likelihood of city fires worldwide, according to a groundbreaking study conducted by Australian and international researchers. Researchers from Hefei ...

Wild Australia: After The Fires, narrated by Hugo Weaving, is a factual documentary created in 2020 by Northern Pictures – Australian Geographic’s sister company. The film charts the long-term ...

In the latest sign of this growth, the country has conducted live-fire naval exercises off the coasts of Australia, Taiwan and Vietnam. In military terms the Chinese exercises do not "have much ...

Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades, with large swathes of the country devastated since the fire season began in late July 2019. Bushfires in Australia can occur all ...