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When the Indian Ocean combines with El Niño dry conditions come to Australia. Drought images from www.shutterstock.com

October 12, 2015

When the Indian Ocean and El Niño join forces, things can get hot and dry

Andrew B. Watkins, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; David Jones, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and Karl Braganza, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

We thought the big El Niño might not bring drought. And then the climate turned dry. And hot.

Coming to a forest near you? Alpha/Flickr

September 13, 2015

‘Godzilla’ El Niño: time to prepare for mega-droughts

Susan Laurance, James Cook University and Bill Laurance, James Cook University

A huge El Niño on the horizon bodes ill for drought and forest fire.

Whale sharks were one of the warm water species to move south during the 2010-2011 marine heatwave. Ben Henrich/Flickr

May 14, 2015

The good-news El Niño story for Western Australia’s oceans

Jaci Brown, CSIRO; Madeleine Cahill, CSIRO; Ming Feng, CSIRO, and Xuebin Zhang, CSIRO

While eastern Australia trembles in the face of an El Niño, Western Australia’s oceans could finally see relief from devastating marine heatwaves.

Kelp covered landscape in Western Australia. Dan Smale

February 5, 2015

Marine heatwaves threaten the future of underwater forests

Thomas Wernberg, The University of Western Australia and Dan Smale, Marine Biological Association

Western Australia’s marine environment is unique. Two world heritage areas, the largest fringing coral reef in Australia, and more than a thousand kilometres of underwater forests, supporting incredible…

El Niño means drought in Australia – and floods in America. Len Matthews

January 21, 2015

El Niño could mean 2015 is even hotter than last year’s scorcher

James Dyke, University of Southampton

It’s confirmed: 2014 produced the highest global temperatures since records began in the 1880s. As if that’s not cause enough for concern, this year threatens to see the return of El Niño, which like some…

Shark Bay is one of Australia’s 19 World Heritage Areas, home to dolphins, dugongs, and sharks. Matthew Fraser

October 8, 2014

Climate change threatens Western Australia’s iconic Shark Bay

Matthew Fraser, The University of Western Australia; Gary Kendrick, The University of Western Australia; John Statton, The University of Western Australia; Jordan Thomson, Florida International University, and Michael Heithaus, Florida International University

In the summer of 2010-2011 Western Australia experienced an unprecedented heatwave — but not on land. Between December 2010 and April 2011, sea temperatures off the WA coast reached 3C above average, and…

Australia’s weather is influenced by warm water movements in the Pacific. Flickr/Shayan USA

June 19, 2014

Explainer: El Niño and La Niña

Jaci Brown, CSIRO

We wait in anticipation of droughts and floods when El Niño and La Niña are forecast but what are these climatic events? The simplest way to understand El Niño and La Niña is through the sloshing around…

You can blink, you won’t miss it. Climate change is here for good. rudecactus

May 23, 2013

Global warming is here to stay, whichever way you look at it

Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Has global warming stalled? This question is increasingly being asked because the local weather seems cool and wet, or because the global mean temperature is not increasing at its earlier rate or the long-term…

Flood waters ravaged Toowoomba, in Queensland, in January 2011. AAP/Keira Lappin

July 11, 2012

2011 to be remembered as the year of extreme weather

Justin Norrie, The Conversation

Severe droughts, floods and landslides devastated parts of the world last year as carbon dioxide concentrations climbed to the highest levels in recorded history, according to a global report on climate…

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