Brisbane suffers under smoke haze as bushfires burn west of city
Bushires burning in the Lockyer Valley west of Brisbane have sent a haze of dangerous smoke across the city after it sweltered in the hottest September day in years yesterday.
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Australia just hit a grim weather milestone. Last time it did, 75 people died
A key weather indicator has hit Ash Wednesday levels, raising a chilling question ahead of summer.
Grim El Niño threshold reached for the first time in 10 years
Experts admit we are in “unchartered territory” based on current trends.
Two dead after Australian firefighting helicopters collide in Greece
The two helicopters were videoed approaching each other shortly before they collided.
Extreme bushfires that would put new emergency warning system to the test ‘on the cards’
Experts say the destruction unfolding overseas could be heading straight for our own backyard.
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Europe burns: Two firefighters killed in Greece as France battles blaze four times size of Paris
The deaths on Crete brought a fatal new dimension to a bushfire emergency stretching from the Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean.
Two words on repeat as dreamy Euro Summer replaced by ‘red hell’
Spain is battling its worst bushfire ever and blazes have forced what’s believed to be the largest peacetime evacuation in French history.
France battles monster fire that forced 220,000 people to flee
Self-feeding firestorms with lightning bolts have ignited more blazes, as neighbouring Spain battles biggest-ever fire.
Aussie travellers warned as wildfires continue to ravage Europe
Hundreds of thousands of people have already been forced from their homes by fires that are “unprecedented” in Europe.
More than 250,000 people flee their homes in France and Spain as wildfires burn
France was preparing to use a massive specially adapted cargo aircraft to dump flame retardants on a wildfire that has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.