MYSTERIOUS: 5 - What They Never Told You

Three million trees are being planted in the NSW Central West but timber shortage drives 40pc price rise

After the Black Summer bushfires decimated 25 per cent of NSW timber plantations, seedlings are being planted across 2,400 hectares in the state's Central West.

ABC News · Jul 11, 2022

Greater glider listed as endangered, as climate change and logging threatens species

The greater glider lost more than a third of its habitat during the Black Summer bushfires and has remained vulnerable to logging and a warming climate.

ABC News · Jul 6, 2022

Cobargo's melted phone booth on show as National Museum showcases nature's fury in a striking exhibition

Artefacts from disasters across the country feature in a striking National Museum exhibit that showcases the power of nature.

ABC News · Jul 3, 2022

Welder sparks ignited major NSW bushfire

The NSW bushfires coronial inquiry has heard sparks from a welder started a major Black Summer bushfire.

AAP · Jun 21, 2022

Lightning ignited Black Summer blaze in the Hunter, inquiry hears

Counsel assisting the coroner, Donna Ward SC, said part of the blaze spread across 11 kilometres in one day, considered "extreme and anomalous" fire behaviour at the time.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 20, 2022

Lightning caused Hunter fire, inquiry told

The long-running NSW coronial inquiry into the Black Summer fires has heard lightning caused a 171,000 hectare bushfire in the Hunter Valley.

AAP · Jun 20, 2022

Greater glider 'Goldilocks Boxes' to provide protection after Black Summer fires

Researchers hope a new type of nesting box will help the greater glider population recover after the Black Summer bushfires destroyed their habitat.

ABC News · Jun 19, 2022

Rare subalpine plants survive bush inferno

Small communities of five rare plants have been found in Australia's subalpine region allaying fears the Black Summer fires had wiped them out forever.

AAP · Jun 17, 2022

This critically endangered marsupial survived a bushfire – then along came the feral cats

The Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 pushed a host of threatened species closer to extinction, including the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnart. And as our research released today shows, feral cats posed a second lethal threat to the species in the weeks after the disaster.

The Conversation · Jun 16, 2022

Farmers from the Canberra region form a community around sustainable practices

After the 2019 drought and Black Summer bushfires, a group of farmers in the Canberra region decided to do things differently. And they have formed a community along the way.

ABC News · Jun 10, 2022