(ABC News) The predictions of catastrophic fire conditions have proved accurate with fires raging across southern New South Wales. Temperatures have soared above 40 degrees and communities in the path of bushfires have been evacuated.
(ABC News) The predictions of catastrophic fire conditions have proved accurate with fires raging across southern New South Wales. Temperatures have soared above 40 degrees and communities in the path of bushfires have been evacuated.
(BBC) Wildfires on the Australian island of Tasmania have stranded thousands of people and destroyed at least 100 homes. Much of Australia is experiencing a heatwave, and temperatures in the Tasmanian state capital Hobart earlier reached a record high of 41C.
SYDNEY (AP) — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country — and possibly the world — to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.
WHITTLESEA, Australia (AP) — Suspicions that the worst wildfires ever to strike Australia were deliberately set led police to declare crime scenes Monday in towns incinerated by blazes, while investigators moving into the charred landscape discovered more bodies. The death toll stood at 130.
SYDNEY (AFP) — Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.