The country is in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave, with temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Multiple ...

We name severe cyclones and storms, but not heatwaves or floods. Why? Are there benefits to giving Australia’s ...

Australia's climate is changing rapidly due to rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events such as ...

So far, the highest temperature recorded has been at Onslow on Western Australia’s Pilbara coast, where the temperature ...

Millions of people across Australia's two most populous states - Victoria and New South Wales - have been warned to remain on ...

During black summer, my daughters were too young to know what was happening. Now, amid another Australian heatwave, they deserve answers ...

Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.

There's panic in Geelong's north with a grassfire prompting authorities to order residents of several suburbs inside. There ...

Bushfires are generating their own weather systems, accelerating the catastrophic blazes currently raging across Victoria as ...

Millions of Australians are set to swelter through a severe heatwave on Friday and into the weekend, with temperatures exceeding 40C across much of the country — a contrast made clear on a real-time ...

Extreme weather is triggering warnings across the country today. There are multiple fire emergencies in Victoria, while a ...

Hello and welcome to Yahoo's live coverage of the extreme heatwave sweeping large parts of Australia this week. Victoria is ...