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Tweet Activist comedian, Rod Quantock, promises you’ll be “apoplectic with fear” (or just plain “scared shitless”) as he takes you with him through the gates of hell into the catastrophic world of runaway global...
Tweet Extreme weather caused by global warming poses a growing risk to Australia’s crop lands, cities and iconic sites, according to a new report, writes Sunanda Creagh from The Conversation. EXTREME WEATHER caused by global warming poses...
Tweet After Evan, a category 3 cyclone, hit the South Pacific islands in December, Fijian towns were severely battered and many people were left homeless. More than one month after the catastrophe, a great deal of the damage is still there –...
Tweet Tony Abbott launching his “mini-campaign” just as the heavens open strikes IA’s storm hit Queensland-based managing editor, David Donovan, as acutely ironic. While Abbott pretends to be Barack Obama, the surf inundates...
Tweet Australia has always had heat waves, but the current one is far from typical. Neil Plummer, Blair Trewin, David Jones, Karl Braganza and Rob Smalley from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology report. (Image courtesy Stephan Peray / Korea...
Tweet Even though the U.S. presidential campaign has entirely ignored climate change, the former Hurricane Sandy has put it back at the forefront of people’s minds. Graham Readfearn reports. Image of then Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012...
Tweet There has been positive and negative aspects to the Queensland flood clean-up efforts, says Tim Badrick. One solution, he suggests, is the de-amalgamation of the Queensland “super-councils”. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh...
Tweet As North Queensland braces itself before being hit by Cyclone Yasi, Queenslanders hope for the best. David Donovan relives his own cyclone experience as a youngster. The pictures of Yasi compared to Cyclone Tracy show that Yasi is immensely...
Tweet Was there anything that could have been done to prevent the devastation to Toowoomba, the Locker Valley and Brisbane from last week’s flood. David Donovan asks some tough questions. Grantham floods totally destroyed the township...
Tweet With flash flooding washing away at least nine poor souls in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, the Queensland floods have taken an unforeseen and tragic turn. Queenslanders brace themselves for further disaster. David Donovan discusses...
