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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters warned millions of Australians of "catastrophic" bushfire dangers as they battled multiple blazes stoked by a ...

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. But sometimes the relationship flips: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bushfire rips through Mount Lawson State Park in Australia's Victoria state (Handout) (Handout/Forest Fire Management ...

Missing family-of0three found safe and well in Longwood Hundreds of firies deployed, tens of thousands without power NSW is also bracing for intense heat and extreme fire danger Victoria is under a ...

The distinctive smell of smoke in summer is often all you need to know there is a bushfire burning. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Even if the fire is many ...

Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside. Temperatures ...

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 ...