I’ll explain how we use data collected by satellites to estimate how much of an area is burning, or has already been burnt, and what this information should look like once it’s mapped. It’s similar to ...

A crumbling 17th century map of Australia—sketched more than 100 years before James Cook made his famed voyage to the continent—has been restored after a painstaking conservation project. And as Karen ...

This year's fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential rain, the next a burst of heat, followed ...

The Sonoma County Fire District shared the maps to its Facebook page over the weekend and they've been shared 1,500 times. A series of maps highlighting the size and scope of wildfires in Australia ...

Rick McRae was a senior emergency manager in the ACT for over three decades, and has now retired. He is now a Visiting Fellow at UNSW Canberra. The bushfire outlook for many parts of Australia has ...

For the third time since the start of Australia's fire season, a state of emergency has been declared in the Australian state of New South Wales due to fires that are burning out of control. The ...