Fires in Sydney, Australia. David Gray/Getty High temperatures and dry conditions over the last few months have driven the blazes, which have so far burned through more than 24,000 square miles of ...

That is the takeaway from the inaugural The Australian Financial Review Asia Summit, organised in partnership with Asia Society Australia. Australia’s place as part of Asia is clear on the map, but ...

But little is known about the map’s whereabouts prior to that point. In 2010, the item surfaced at an auction, and in 2013 the National Library of Australia purchased it.

To visualize the size and scale of Australia’s fire season, this map shows how the burned areas compare to California’s worst wildfires — the Camp Fire near Paradise and the Woolsey Fire ...

Australia’s in the midst of its hottest December ever, with record-high temperatures this week peaking at 121 degrees Fahrenheit. The rest of the world is either quite cold or fairly mild by ...