New data released by the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) shows that the total insured cost of extreme weather events ...

That information will come after further analysis. But he said that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense in Australia and across the globe.

In 2023, almost a year's worth of rain fell over ten days in parts of northwestern Australia, leading to catastrophic flooding in the town of Fitzroy Crossing and surrounds. The rainfall was ...

A major Australian travel company has axed tours to popular European spots over concerns of extreme weather caused by climate ...

Even though the weather system was downgraded on Saturday morning from a cyclone to a tropical low, it is developing into one of the most impactful weather events to hit eastern Australia in decades.

The federal government has facilitated the best of both worlds for insurers: higher profits and simultaneous crowing about ...

In 2020, in the wake of Australia’s Black Summer bushfires, Paddy Manning wrote Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us (Simon & Schuster, 2020). He spoke with the families and friends of ...

Australia’s growing heatwave threat is putting strain on people’s hearts, study warns Nearly 50,000 years of healthy life are lost annually to cardiovascular disease caused by heat ...

For the first time, demographers have calculated how many Australians move each year because of climate disasters such as fire, floods and cyclones. They say the figure is likely to be an ...

A low-pressure system is forecast to sweep over south-east Australia on Wednesday, with blizzard conditions expected for the ...

Australia's southeast sweltered in a heatwave on Monday, raising the bushfire risk and prompting authorities to issue fire bans for several parts of Victoria state.