Overshadowed by COVID: The Deadly Extreme Weather of 2020
The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the climate warms, natural hazards will happen […]
The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but it is also on target to be one of the warmest on record. And as the climate warms, natural hazards will happen […]
A discussion on how outer urban communities can collectively manage their risks to natural disasters and emergencies. First the drought, then bushfires and then flash floods: a chain of extreme events hit Australia hard in […]
It was a summer of turmoil across Australia. This was evidenced by unparalleled bushfires which devastated much of the Australian coast, drought causing hardship to farming communities in rural areas of the country, and most […]
The World Meteorological Organisation today published a definitive climate report card showing concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to rise, and the last five years were the warmest on record. The Statement on the State of the […]
Last week saw an unprecedented outbreak of large, intense fires stretching from the mid-north coast of New South Wales into central Queensland. The most tragic losses are concentrated in northern NSW, where 970,000 hectares have […]
Australia is a land of extremes, and famously of “droughts and flooding rains”. That’s been truer than ever in the 21st century; since 1999 the country has see-sawed from drought to deluge with surprising speed. There was […]
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