Bushfires that have burnt through wilderness areas in Tasmania are now threatening trees that grow nowhere else in the world and are critical to the state's honey industry.

A number of readers have inquired as to the status of garden soil or landscaped ground following a fire.

As Tasmania battles more than a dozen fires sparked by a band of dry lightning strikes, some in high-value wilderness areas, ...

How much blame can be laid on tree species?

In a world where diseases, parasites, and severe weather can kill most trees, the red pine has found an unlikely ally, fire. Some say redheads are kissed by fire; the same can be said for the red pine ...

Thanks to a couple of observant locals, an owlet (baby owl) was rescued and safely returned to its nest in St. Hubert’s Cemetery in downtown Chanhassen on Wednesday morning.

A bushfire burning in the Takayna/Tarkine in Tasmania's north-west has come within metres of a grove that contains the oldest ...

A canopy of mixed species, most over 30 metres high, thrives on a tract of 160 hectares in the Lopinot Valley, the successful ...

Fire and Emergency has released its operational review into last year's Port Hills' fire in Christchurch, days away from the ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

Wednesday, January 29: 4:48 pm, tree/wires down, 89 Great Ring Road, Botsford responded; 11:39 pm, tree/wires down, 46 Old ...

What remains from the fires that broke out Jan. 7 is a charred landscape, filled with skeletal trees and blackened debris.