When water from rainfall, often received hundreds of kilometres away, finally reaches the Channel Country, it spreads out, filling and spilling out of the previously dry beds of ephemeral creeks and streams and bringing life to whatever it touches.
Tropical Cyclone Jasper has caused extreme rainfall in far north Queensland of more than 2m, leading to severe flooding across the region, forcing evacuations and leaving residents stranded.
It’s natural to want to feed wildlife after disasters. But it may not help.
We document the impact of the recent floods on animals.
Broome’s record rainfall has flooded the region and forced local wildlife to flee to higher ground.
Research based on palaeological flood records suggests floods as big as those that hit Brisbane in 2011 may be more common than we think.
A total of 1859 people have died in floods in Australia in the past 115 years, yet people continue to ignore warnings and road closure signs.
Over the past 48 hours the east coast of New South Wales has been battered by powerful winds and waves measuring up to 13 metres.
Photographer Tom Rayner’s new book takes you on a journey through the Macquarie Marshes and their revival from years of drought, to brimming wetland oasis.
Sporadic heavy rains bring a slow tide of change to parched lands in the Murray-Darling basin.