For generations, Aboriginal Martu people in the northwestern deserts of Australia managed their ancestral lands and shaped their landscapes using fire. Burning small, frequent and low-intensity ...

In the remote bush of northeastern Australia, children learn to light fires at a young age. It's an Aboriginal tradition that goes back thousands of years: using fire to stop fire. Long before ...

Long before European colonizers settled in Australia, Aboriginal groups have been setting their own lands ablaze as a fire management technique. They use carefully controlled low flames and the ...

It’s as big around as a card table ... and Tinpulya Mervin of Watarru perform a fire dance in the Great Victoria Desert, a rite for women only. Aboriginals set fires to clear the land of underbrush.