ARNHEM LAND, Australia (CNN) -- The north of Australia is called the Top End -- not a place where you'll find guardrails, signs or public transportation. It's Australia in the rough, a cornucopia ...

A live fire mapping service, used by Indigenous rangers, firefighting agencies and pastoralists in northern Australia, is on track to run out of funding during the region's peak fire season.

It was late September, just a few weeks before the end of Gurrang, one of Arnhem Land’s six seasons. Smoke rose from the floodplains where the local women hunt long-necked turtles. The fire ...

Stephanie King, the manager of the Arnhem Land Fire Abatement project, said the live NAFI map would become especially important later in the season, when the rangers switch gear into active ...