Three people, including a child, are missing after bushfires tore through parts of Victoria under “catastrophic” conditions, destroying homes and forcing emergency warnings across south-eastern ...

More than 1,000 families in Victoria are being urged to evacuate as bushfires burn across the state and a severe heatwave pushes temperatures in parts of southeast Australia towards 50C. Emergency ...

Bushfires are environmental disasters and highly damaging to all the wildlife. Raptors, including the kite species, are well-known fire foragers, feeding on animals fleeing the flames. The birds pick ...