Major flooding along the Mary River in eastern Queensland, Australia, has prompted hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes. Meanwhile police report at least one person has died and one…
Hundreds of people have evacuated their homes after severe flooding in parts of southern Queensland, Australia. Police reported one person died after a vehicle was dragged by flood waters. This…
A low-pressure trough off the coast of south east Australia caused a wild weekend of weather for south east Queensland and northern New South Wales with torrential rain, damaging winds,…
The heavy rain continues to fall in South East Australia, with flooding affecting parts of southern Queensland over the last few days. This follows severe flooding in parts of New…
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a catastrophe for property losses caused by storms and flooding along the east coast since 05 February 2020. ICA said insurers have…
Update, 28 January 2020: Emergency services in Queensland rescued a man stranded in floodwaters near Townsville in the north of the state. Localised flooding and a rock slide was reported…
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a catastrophe for damage caused by storms that struck the Australian Capital Territory and parts of Victoria and New South Wales from…
Severe weather impacted parts of south-east Queensland, Australia, from 12 to 13 December, 2019. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology reported rainfall rates of 120mm per hour in Southport, Queensland. Cars were…
Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?, by Billy Tusker Haworth, University of Manchester; Christine Eriksen, University of Wollongong, and Scott McKinnon, University of Wollongong…
Most major airports in Australia are located on reclaimed swamps, sitting only a few metres above the present day sea level. And the risk of sea level rise from climate…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean and captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Ann in the Coral Sea, off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.…
Tropical Cyclone Trevor has crossed Queensland, Australia’s Cape York Peninsula and re-emerged into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Visible imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite confirmed the movement back over water. Tropical…
Flood warnings have been issued in Queensland, Australia, after Tropical Cyclone Trevor dumped more than 300mm of rain in 24 hours. Storm Trevor made landfall along the east coast of…
Many parts of Queensland have been declared disaster zones and thousands of residents evacuated due to a 1-in-100-year flood. Townsville is at the epicentre of the “unprecedented” monsoonal downpour that…
The heavy rain has continued to fall in North Queensland, with flooding affecting areas around Townsville from 30 January, 2019. A few days earlier wide areas of the north of…
Torrential rain and swollen rivers have left communities cut off and farmland inundated in parts of northern Queensland, Australia. According to figures from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) over 620…
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