CHICAGO (WLS) -- The world's attention is focused on Australia, where more than 200 active bushfires are burning. Most of those are burning along the coast, where more than 85% of the country's ...

Marta Yebra is a member of the ACT Multi Hazards Advisory Council and The International Academy of Astronautics. This year’s fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential ...

As the devastating fires in Victoria spread earlier this month, people at home could see how they were moving across the state — not just in videos on the news and social media, but on an interactive ...

David Bowman has received funding from the ARC and Natural Hazards Research Australia. As I write this, five people are dead and at least 1,000 buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that have ...

Henry Phelps started out flying tourists over New Zealand's wilderness areas and has lately been helping map and fight the Australian bushfires.