Storms, fires and floods: Blue Mountains Jenolan Caves to close after series of unforgiving weather events
Wildlife rescue group Wires faces crunch vote amid volunteer discontent over funds raised after bushfires
June 2024
The rural network
Fury road: a forlorn hope that, for once, Australia would choose the hard path on climate
Calla Wahlquist
Sometimes driving down old and familiar country roads conjures up romantic memories. Or, as after Dutton’s nuclear announcement, it just fills you with anger
The rural network, Victoria
I’m a CFA volunteer – and as firefighters we have to put community safety above politics
Cam Walker
A threat by some volunteers to refuse to fight fires on renewable energy developments undermines the trust placed in us to protect lives and property
Temperature Check
The things that you’re liable to read in the IPCC bible ain’t necessarily so, Chris Uhlmann says. It’s a bold claim
Graham Readfearn
The contributor to Sky News accuses climate change ‘zealots’ of not having read the research. But his own reading is less than comprehensive
May 2024
A kangaroo, a possum and a bush rat walk into a burrow: research finds wombat homes are the supermarkets of the forest
Scientist discovers a cast of recurring characters using burrows in the aftermath of bushfire, after sifting through more than 700,000 images
April 2024
Three things
Three things with Bruce Pascoe: ‘My teeth were all over the place, like a dropped Mahjong set’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Dark Emu author talks about his childhood tooth brace – and what he grabbed from his property as a bushfire bore down
March 2024
Black summer fires: a veteran ecologist says Australia’s bushfire modelling is flawed. Others disagree
NSW coroner calls for overhaul of firefighting systems after black summer bushfires
Blue Mountains welcomes new $10m Grand Cliff Top Walk after years of track closures
First Dog on the Moon
We see the smoke on the horizon first, then the text messages start – Bushfire Emergency Warning!
A missing woman, a mine collapse and six weeks of trauma in the town of Ballarat
Australia news live
Coalition flags housing policy ‘refresh’ – as it happened
February 2024
Victoria fires: cause of Dereel bushfire that threatened homes being treated as suspicious
Victorian authorities on alert as strong winds develop amid 40C heat and catastrophic conditions
Victoria fires: more than half of state on extreme bushfire danger alert as hot weather forecast
Australia news live
PM says private Katy Perry show at Pratt mansion an ‘opportunity to talk to manufacturers’ – as it happened
‘Grave concern’ over Wednesday heat spike in Victoria after six homes destroyed in bushfires
Fans at Sydney stadium evacuated after nearby lightning strikes – as it happened
The rural network, Victoria
‘It’s just what you do for people’: the volunteer force helping Victoria’s Beaufort bushfire evacuees
