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In the absence of indigenous fire management, savannas have seen the kind of larger, higher-intensity fires occurring late in the dry season that likely existed before people, when lightning was the sole source of ignition.

In new research, the authors compared cultural burning to agency-led prescribed burning or no burning. We studied the effects on soil properties such as moisture content, density, and nutrient levels.

This report provides a summary of selected significant extreme weather and climate events which occurred across Australia in 2023.

Victorians were braced for the worst on Wednesday amid soaring temperatures and gusty winds, creating the state’s worst fire conditions in years. Authorities have declared a “catastrophic” fire risk in some parts of the state.

Are thunderstorms with extreme winds getting worse as the climate changes? It’s possible, but we can’t yet say for sure. That’s partly because thunderstorms involve small-scale processes harder to study than bigger weather systems.

The New South Wales (NSW) Reconstruction Authority has developed Australia’s first State Disaster Mitigation Plan (SDMP).

The NSW Government released the nation’s first State Disaster Mitigation Plan (SDMP). The plan reveals the cost of building and infrastructure damage from disasters could hit $9.1 billion per year by 2060, as more severe events take a higher toll.

The power outage that hit Victoria could have been much worse. It speaks to the urgent need to harden power grids against the more frequent extreme weather expected under climate change.