of bush, forest and parks across Australia. Residents of Sydney - Australia's largest city - endured smoke for weeks and the air quality exceeded "hazardous" levels on several occasions.

The vast clouds of smoke from Australia's historic bush fires are expected to circle the Earth and return to the country, Nasa says. The US agency said satellites have been monitoring the movement ...

A smoke alert was issued for areas between Albanu and Perth, including the Capes in the South West, on Wednesday as a bush fire spread rapidly. Locals and social media reporters posted several ...

One night last November, Courtney Partridge-McLennan said goodnight to her family in Australia and went to sleep in her room. At some point in following hours, the 19-year-old woman suffered a ...

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Sotiris Vardoulakis is Professor of Global Environmental Health at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Source: Supplied Droughts, fires and even the smoke that has been ...

Wildfires have killed at least four people, destroyed more than 680 homes and burned more than 2.5 million acres of bush land across eastern Australia ... people - in smoke and ash for more ...

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