The distinctive smell of smoke in summer is often all you need to know there is a bushfire burning. Even if the fire is many kilometers away, the drop in air quality can be harmful for your health.

Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for flames to spread across the landscape. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bushfire burnt uncontrollably in the south of Western Australia on Thursday, January 22, prompting multiple Emergency Bushfire ...

Three people, including a child, are missing after bushfires tore through parts of Victoria under “catastrophic” conditions, destroying homes and forcing emergency warnings across south-eastern ...

Brian Oliver receives funding from the NH&MRC and the ARC. He is affiliated with Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, and the European Respiratory Society. The distinctive smell of smoke in ...