CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (CSE) conducts research and development across a range of landscapes, targeting social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Scientists believe more bushfires generated by rising temperatures and lower rainfall will lead to lower air quality over a greater number of days in Australia, particularly in the south-east.

The weather conditions that lead to Victoria’s past two major bushfires may be linked to lower than normal sea-surface temperatures in the eastern Indian Ocean, according to researchers from CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship.

From the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires to the present, all bushfires involving significant house loss have been surveyed by CSIRO bushfire researchers.

CSIRO's Fire Science research program uses our expertise in material flammability, fire growth and control, and bushfire impact on infrastructure to improve fire safety.

CSIRO has a range of fire research, testing and consulting services that form our integrated fire safety capability used in safety design, developing fire-safe materials and improving public safety.

CSIRO’s fire ecology and management research in rangelands and savannas aims to improve fire management, understand fire's role in controlling invasive plants and increase our knowledge of fire and its effects.

In this interview, Mr Justin Leonard discusses ways you can prepare your home against bushfires. (7:44)

Dr Alan Andersen is a Chief Research Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Darwin, where he studies ant community ecology, the use of ants and other invertebrates as indicators of ecosystem health, and fire ecology and management in tropical savannas.

Mr Jim Gould and his team investigate fuel and fire dynamics of bushfires to understand their behaviour better. They develop innovative science and technology to protect life and property, and manage fire in the landscape.

This important book deals with the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas.

Boom and Bust draws on the natural history of Australia's charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment.

"Alpine grazing reduces blazing" is a widely and strongly held view, in both rural and urban regions, concerning fire in Australia’s high country. CSIRO along with its' partners tested this view following the widespread fires in Victorian high country in 2003.

A fire requires air, heat and fuel to grow. To control the fire, at least one of them must be removed.