By Christine Chen SYDNEY, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A record-breaking heatwave baked Australia's southeast for a fifth straight day ...

Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside. Temperatures are forecast to soar ...

Extreme heat ‘is getting worse and whether we like it or not … there’s ultimately a limit to what we can actually physically cope with,’ scientist says ...

A state of emergency has been declared in Victoria as thousands of firefighters battle the blaze.

Wild bushfires in Australia are typically seen as environmental disasters that are highly damaging to all the wildlife in ...

Smoke has blanketed a major city after a bushfire drew within striking distance of a rural town during a widespread heatwave.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters warned millions of Australians of "catastrophic" bushfire dangers as they battled multiple blazes stoked by a ...

Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside. Temperatures ...