A bushfire burns in Port Macquarie, Australia, on Nov. 2, 2019. Population estimates for koalas, native to Australia, vary widely, from as few as 50,000 to little more than 100,000.

Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, showed a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), triple the ...

So far, the bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares in five states. Kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and echidnas, have been forced into residential areas and people's homes.

More than 60,000 koalas were killed, injured or displaced in Australian bushfires last summer, the World Wide Fund for Nature has estimated, in what it called a deeply disturbing number for a ...

Floods and storm damage in Queensland and NSW accounted for the lion’s share of claims and costs, the latter combining for about $573 million. As for bushfires, those in Tasmanian had resulted ...

Authorities on Saturday urged thousands of people in Australia's Queensland state to evacuate as bushfires that have destroyed at least 30 homes continued to threaten rural towns. More than 35 ...

SYDNEY — Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on ...

Australia’s bushfires are contributing to one of the biggest annual increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere since record-keeping began more than 60 years ago ...

Around 480 million animals are feared to have died in the bushfires sweeping Australia, including nearly a third of the koalas in New South Wales's main habitat.