Building on this, the Predictions in Public project is developing and testing fire spread prediction maps to improve communication with both emergency services and local communities. The goal is to ...

Developed by Natural Hazards Research Australia in collaboration with the University of New England (UNE) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the revised index – labelled ADRI-2 – ...

Australia is burning. Both New South Wales and Queensland have declared a state of emergency after seeing new record high in property losses during this fire season. Recently, “fires near me” has ...

Earth's cloud cover is rapidly shrinking and contributing to record-breaking temperatures, according to new research ...

It didn’t break the drought, but a decent drop of rain over the long weekend was a welcome change for parched areas of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. A low pressure complex and an associated ...

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies on the current system for its mild weather.

As much as 44 per cent of Australian waters are classified as marine parks, but not all those zones are fully protected from fishing and industrial activity. Australian Associated Press Share ...

Australia has joined the two instigating nations, Brazil and France, as well as Fiji, Kenya, Mexico, Palau, and the Republic of Seychelles as early movers. The voluntary challenge invites countries to ...

Ahead of this week's crucial United Nations ocean conference , federal Environment Minister Murray Watt promised that by 2030 , 30% of Australian ...

To effectively account for low network density in parts of Australia, two passes of the statistical interpolation technique are applied (following the method of Glowacki et al. 2012), first at a low ...

These maps show the average annual and average monthly number of heating and cooling degree days across Australia, over the period 1961 to 1990. The number of cooling degree days increases towards the ...