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The frequency of natural disasters is making life in rural areas increasingly difficult, pushing inhabitants into city slums
Climate change ‘clearly played a role’ in conditions that led up to Australia’s 2019-2020 fires, which were so extreme, traditional firefighting methods often failed.
Extreme weather set the stage for the blazes tearing through cities and rural areas. They are likely to continue for weeks.
Report raises concerns around seawalls’ cost and effectiveness as low pressure system to batter NSW coastline with high tides and huge waves
Extreme heat is a significant public health threat in the U.S., causing more deaths than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years.
Emergency centers and fire agencies work to reduce the risk of spreading the virus as the west and south-west brace for the inevitable.
The royal commission is holding three days of hearings to examine bushfire hazard reduction. Experts agreed hazard reduction burns were most effective, and most expensive, when they were targeted at protecting built assets such as homes and schools
Record-breaking rainfall has devastated communities – and with thousands displaced and more rain predicted the picture is bleak
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