Australian scientists warned the country could face a climate change-driven bushfire crisis by 2020. It arrived on schedule.

"So many of us are wondering: have lives spent furthering conservation been wasted?"

Carcasses can play a positive role as landscapes recover from fire, providing rich nutrients for other native animal, microbial and plant species.

New research shows marsupials are forced to change their eating habits in hot weather because of the toxins found in Eucalyptus leaves.

Australia's current bushfire crisis could wipe out some of our rarer insect species, according to a group of experts.

Professor Jason Mattingley's neuroscience research is mind blowing.

Australia has a long history of bushfires. But several factors make eastern Australia’s recent crisis different to infamous bushfires in the past.

We estimate most of the range and population of between 20 and 100 threatened species will have been burnt.

Rather than an untidy mess, fire-damaged trees and half burnt logs left behind by a fire are valuable habitat for recovering wildlife.