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The findings have big implications for how Australians prepare for extreme weather events.
Brush turkeys, bats, and cockroaches are crucial for the environment – including our gardens. Each have fascinating ways of coping in wet weather.
The growing threat of flash flooding as a result of more intense rapid rain bursts means the city needs to update its flood defences.
Extreme weather is set to dominate our future – can collecting rainwater reduce the threat posed by both drought and flooding?
Worsening droughts and flooding likely threaten the future of cotton farming – by far the most important crop in the basin.
A climate scientist explains the forces behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.
Rainwater may be contaminated with chemicals and scientists are still uncertain about their effects.
Flash flooding can happen in both urban and rural areas, with deadly results in either setting.
Extreme downpours brought deadly flooding to the Appalachian region, just a few weeks after the destructive Yellowstone River flood.
Again, thousands of residents in Western Sydney face a life-threatening flood disaster. Obviously, nature is a major culprit – but other drivers are also at play.
In general, most people drive more safely when it rains. However, some underestimate the danger, which can increase risk.
There is a growing interest in planting small trees in urban areas. However, large trees have significant advantages.
One weather configuration has been responsible for record-breaking downpours in Australia, South America, and South Africa this year.
You can’t photograph the inside of a twister, but radar offers some clues.
Could South Africa’s flooding in 2022 have been foreseen? It has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers around the world.
Emission of greenhouse gases is on the rise, an indication that the worst lies ahead.
This score is a massive four points higher than the year prior. But as La Niña subsides, we’ll quickly feel the long-term warming trend again, with bushfires picking back up next season.
Parts of southeast Australia are inundated yet again. Clearly, short-term weather forecasts are not enough to protect communities in times like these.
In a damp or water-damaged environment, toxic mould species grow and release spores that can cause health problems if inhaled.
Top contributors
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Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Head of Operational Climate Services, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Research Assistant, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Regional and Rural Futures, Deakin University
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Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Senior Research Associate, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide
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Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Senior Meteorologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor of Hydrology, University of Reading
