The worst fire danger spots will be much easier to identify, thanks to revolutionary new technology being developed at the Australian National University.

60 Minutes CBS (USA) spoke to Dr Joelle Gergis from the Fenner School of Environment & Society about the link between the recent summer bushfires and climate change.

Opinion piece - Despite all of the earth observation data being used to retrieve critical fire information over our current fire crisis, Australia can definitely do better by launching its own space mission targeted to meet fire management requirements.

In this opinion piece, Professor David Lindenmayer discusses the environmental risks of logging a forest that has been damaged by fire.

As the climate has warmed, the cool mountain habitat of species in the Kosciuszko National Park is shrinking; bushfires have decimated a lot of what was left. Feral horses now threaten to destroy the remainder, and according to Professor Jamie Pittock, an urgent culling program is needed.

Efforts by firefighters on the ground and in the air have saved the only known natural grove of the world-famous Wollemi pines from destruction during the record-breaking bushfires in NSW.