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This picture taken on March 7, 2022 shows the current condition of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland. - The Great Barrier Reef has again been hit with

Great Barrier Reef suffers first mass bleaching under cooling La Niña

25 March 2022

Corals have turned white across all four of the reef’s main areas, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña climate phenomenon, in the natural wonder's sixth mass bleaching event of modern times

Rare herb devastated by Australian bush fires saved by seed bank

8 April 2020

One of the largely unnoticed victims of the Australian bush fires earlier this year was clover glycine (Glycine latrobeana), a rare pea endemic to South Australia that has now been restored thanks to seeds kept at Kew Gardens

Climate change made Australian bushfires more likely, says report

4 March 2020

Australia’s recent devastating bushfires were made more likely by human-made climate change, an international team of scientists has found

Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest

24 February 2020

Australia’s recent extreme wildfires burned 5.8 million hectares of forest, destroying about one fifth of the forest biome in eastern Australia over four months

Smoke from Australia's bushfires has spread to South America

15 November 2019

Satellites show atmospheric pollution created by the fires across New South Wales and Queensland has travelled more than 10,000 kilometres to Chile and Argentina