Last year was a “bumper” one for Australia’s environment on the back of significant rainfall, but climate change, habitat destruction and invasive species remain ongoing threats, according to the latest edition of Australia’s Environment Report.
After two years of heavy rain and record floods across eastern states, La Nina is finally over but authorities warn more extreme weather could be on the way in the form of a drought.
Experts at the Australian National University predict “no real relief on the horizon” for hay fever sufferers in Canberra until January 2023, in part thanks to La Niña.
Professor Simon Haberle, Director of...
Large swathes of Australia are set to be drenched and shivering, with heavy falls and lower than average temperatures forecast from the country's north to Tasmania.
The ACT Government has spent $1.2 million from the 2022-23 Budget to pilot a rapid response mowing team that will target mowing hotspots reported by the community.
The team’s inaugural run marks the...
Australians are most likely in for a third year of wetter weather than usual with forecasters predicting a 70 per cent likelihood of La Nina remaining.
Further rain and flooding are forecast for parts of eastern Australia in coming months, with a third successive La Nina weather pattern also likely later this year.
A slowly weakening La Niña is one climate factor influencing above-average winter rainfall for most of central and eastern Australia in coming months, the Bureau of Meteorology's Winter 2022 Climate Outlook shows.
Despite above average rainfall throughout autumn and winter 2020, the severity of seven years of drought followed by catastrophic fires left scars on land and living creatures that will be permanent or slow to fade.
ACT emergency services are preparing for a “very different” bushfire season than the previous two.
By early August, the ACT had received sufficient rainfall to remove the “residual drought” posing a forest fire...