Canberra weather: Hailstorm destroys decades of CSIRO glasshouse drought research

Following weeks of devastating bushfires, the longed-for rain deluge promised to provide a cool relief but, instead, the ...
Phys.org

20 years ago, vast bushfires razed Canberra's suburbs—and bushfire science was never the same

It has been 20 years to the day since bushfires burst out of the Brindabella Ranges and into the suburbs of our nation's bush capital. Four lives were lost, many people were injured and more than 500 ...
Digital Journal

Emergency declared for bushfire-threatened Canberra

Authorities in Canberra on Friday declared the first state of emergency in almost two decades as a bushfire bore down on the Australian capital. Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory ...
Phys.org

New warning system can help predict extreme bushfires

A UNSW Canberra researcher has developed a world-first warning system for extreme bushfires that can be an invaluable tool for firefighting services. The new warning system, developed by Adjunct ...
The Conversation

Of ice and fire: what sea salt in Antarctic snowfall reveals about bushfires worse than the Black Summer

Australia has a long history of bushfires. The 2019-2020 Black Summer was the worst in recorded history. But was that the worst it could get? Our new research has reconstructed the past 2,000 years of ...