SYDNEY (Reuters) - Authorities in Australia's Victoria state looked on Sunday to contain and assess damage from a large fire that has ripped through The Grampians National Park this week, destroying ...

Severe weather disrupted holiday travel on Saturday across the U.S. with deadly tornadoes in the southeast and heavy snow and ...

Property losses are expected to mount after a huge bushfire claimed at least three homes and ... a rural farming community on ...

A bushfire grew to more than 74,000 hectares (182,857 acres) by Friday, December 27, burning through swathes of Grampians ...

More than 1,300 tiny, critically endangered snails that were bred in a UK zoo were released on a remote Atlantic island in a bid by conservationists to save the species. The Desertas Island land ...

The Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, has announced the rare and exciting arrival of a baby pygmy hippo on December 9. The calf was born to parents Iris and Corwin after a seven-month gestation ...

Timelapse footage captured a bushfire tearing across a hill in Bellfield, Victoria, near Grampians National Park on the evening of Friday,. On Friday, all emergency warnings had been downgraded to a ...

Australian firefighters said Friday they were fighting to control a bushfire racing through a national park that has consumed ...

About 600 firefighters are battling the blaze that has burnt through almost 75,000 hectares in the park, located about three ...

Australian authorities urged people in dozens of rural communities to leave home "immediately" Thursday to escape an ...

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are preparing for potentially devastating wildfires as a heatwave fanned by erratic winds presented the worst fire conditions ...

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are bracing for potentially devastating wild fires ...