bushfires
The tennis player slumped to her knees, struggling to breathe, and said she had "never experienced something like this before".
The glossy black cockatoo, Kangaroo Island dunnart and southern corroboree frog are just some of the species that could face extinction.
Coverage of the Australian wildfires by Murdoch's titles has played down their severity, the senior worker points out.
The good Samaritans drove through the devastation on Kangaroo Island to load their car with injured koalas.
US conservatives including Donald Trump Jr and Sean Hannity have shared misleading figures about arsonists igniting bushfires.
Ecologists at the University of Sydney and WWF Australia estimate that a billion is a conservative figure.
Almost 200 'unprecedented' fires are still raging.
"This isn’t a bushfire it’s an atomic bomb."
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was heckled during a visit to Corbago, one of the towns that has been ravaged by bushfires this season. Residents refused to shake the Prime Minister’s hand until he promised more funding, and told him, “you won’t be getting any votes down here, buddy. You’re an idiot.” Morrison is facing increasing pressure as the fires continue to spread.
Fire and Rescue New South Wales has confirmed the crew is now safe.