NSW is copping rain and flooding while parts of Australia are in drought. What’s going on?
Co-written by Andrew Dowdy
Faster disaster: climate change fuels ‘flash droughts’, intense downpours and storms
Co-written by Andrew Dowdy.
Here’s why climate change isn’t always to blame for extreme rainfall
Co-written by Kate R Saunders and Kimberley Reid.
From floods to fire? A climate scientist on the chances El Niño will hit Australia this year
After three soggy years of La Niña in a row, Australia has endured record-breaking floods, the latest of which has inundated the Kimberley in Western Australia …
On our wettest days, stormclouds can dump 30 trillion litres of water across Australia
This week, rain has drenched almost all of Australia – even the arid interior. The heaviest falls have hit the continent’s southeast, where the huge deluge has …
A climate scientist on India and Pakistan’s heatwave, and the consequences of better air quality
The record-shattering heatwave that engulfed most of India and Pakistan through March and April brought temperatures exceeding 45℃ in many areas, leading to cri…
‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history’: climate scientists on floods
Co-written by Linden Ashcroft and Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick.