Rubbish day took a dangerous turn on a US street as a fire and blast in a garbage truck left two police officers and a firefighter injured.

Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced during Australia's devastating bushfires of the past year, scientists say. The findings meant it was one of "worst wildlife disasters in ...

A largetooth sawfish rests on a river bottom in Kakadu National Park, part of Australia's Northern Territory ... while rangers splashed the animals with water to keep them moist.

They were the ancient Australian megafauna—huge animals that roamed the continent during the Pleistocene epoch. In boneyards across the continent, scientists have found the fossils of a giant ...

There is a widely-reported estimate that almost half a billion (480 million) animals have been killed by the bush fires in Australia. It's a figure that came from Prof Chris Dickman, an expert on ...