With annual fire season starting May 1, teams have been busy in the Mount Carmel National Park in northern Israel, the site of one of Israel's worst blazes in 2010

'Highly unlikely' global community will meet 2030 goal to reduce casualties, damage, says International Science Council; floods and storms, exacerbated by climate change, top list

Questions over whether Paris Agreement's aspirational target can be met as UN's first comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change since 2014 to be released Monday

'I never saw such a strong event spread so fast,' says researcher; says smoke can reflect solar radiation, cooling the ocean, as well as absorbing it to cause localized warming

At least 33 people are dead and 3,000 homes destroyed in the wake of devastating blazes that raged in recent months

New video footage of cows who made it through the flames and were sent to Eilat draws fresh criticism of intense suffering endured during live shipping

Morrison says 23 deaths confirmed so far this summer; danger increases as temperatures rise to record levels, surpassing 43 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit) in Canberra

Thousands of firefighters battle bushfires amid 41.9 degrees Celsius heatwave, with authorities warning extreme weather conditions could get even worse

Already unprecedented bushfire season sees average nationwide temperature hit a blistering 105.6 Fahrenheit, breaking 2013's record of 104.5

Three lightly hurt in overnight fires near Nahalal, Karmiel, Afula and Haifa; firefighters go on high alert; heat wave expected to last till Thursday