Climate Change - Disasters

Natural disasters have punctuated most years of their high school life, but this year's Heywire winners only have tales of resilience to share. 

At least 46 people have been killed by wildfires in Chile with the death toll expected to rise.

Millions of Australians up and down the east coast have sweltered through exceptionally high humidity in recent weeks. So where is the humidity coming from?

Lisala Folau, known as Tonga's "Aquaman", survived 27 hours in open ocean after being swept from his island home. Two years on from that day, his island is abandoned.   

It is expected to cost more than $2 billion to recover from back-to-back natural disasters that hit Queensland in recent weeks, with the south-east accounting for three quarters of the total damage bill.

Flooding is becoming an all-too-familiar sight in Kerang, and climate reports are forecasting an extreme risk to the northern Victorian town by 2050.

Wild weather has slammed parts of Queensland and decimated many businesses during the peak tourist period. Is it ever OK to visit in the wake of a natural disaster?

A conservation team is revegetating Victoria's Phillip Island with fire-retardant native plants to protect the world's largest colony of little penguins from the effects of climate change. 

A multi-billion-dollar taxpayer-funded extension plan for Darwin Harbour is being slammed by Pacific neighbours and environmental groups, saying it represents a major fossil fuel subsidy.

Cyclone Jasper intensifies to a category four system, continuing its gradual march towards the north Queensland coast. 

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the president of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, says his country, the United Arab Emirates, will chip in $US100 million, a sum matched by Germany. But critics say much more is needed. 

Two years ago, Gregory Andrews was the high commissioner to West Africa, where he was responsible for promoting Australia's mining interests. Today, he is on the lawns of Parliament House, 14 days into a hunger strike protesting the lack of government action on climate change.

Between November 2022 and October this year, the average global temperature was more than 1.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and more record highs are on the way.

New digital fire rating signs are being installed on roadsides across the country but some people say they are hard to read in certain circumstances. 

Almost 200 millimetres of rain falls in some parts of the most populous city in the US, enough to enable a sea lion at Central Park Zoo to swim briefly out of the confines of her pool enclosure.

After 40 years fighting bushfires, and becoming increasingly alarmed at their intensity, Alan risked jail to join young climate activists like Violet. He's not alone and here's why

A marine heatwave will likely hit Tasmania just as seafood operators are harvesting oysters, abalone, and salmon for the Christmas dinner table.

Experts say the sea will engulf Carti Sugtupu and dozens of neighbouring islands in the Guna Yala region by the end of the century.

Scientists are getting better at measuring the impact climate change is having on extreme weather events, with the Bureau of Meteorology getting ready to release climate attribution statements.

From drought and bushfires to hail storms and flooding, El Niño's official declaration for the first time in eight years is likely to bring it all. Or maybe not. We look back at the impacts the major climate driver has brought to Australia in the past.

Many Pacific nations face similar conditions to Maui, where flammable African grasses have overtaken land cleared for agriculture. In New Caledonia, communities are now planting fire-resistant trees that can act as green fire breaks and slow the spread of blazes.

Firefighters struggle against strong winds and hot, dry conditions as they battle multiple wildfires which have left 20 people dead, including one blaze that officials say is the largest recorded in the European Union.

Canada’s record-breaking wildfires are significantly worse because of climate change, according to a rapid analysis by a leading team of scientists. 

A parks and wildlife director says a planned fire that got through containment lines to encroach on Alice Springs was fuelled by an introduced species of grass that is in the region "to stay".

These maps and satellite images show how the Hawaiian town of Lahaina on Maui's west coast has been all but wiped from the map.