Science & Environment
Gallery: Reader photography: Weather warning
When Aussie skies are on the move, our readers are there to capture the scenery.
Tag: weather
AG Blog
Brisbane floods lower, but devastation continues
The river in Brisbane has peaked lower than the 1974 floods, but devastation continues.
AG Blog
Personal perspective: inside the flood clean up
In one of the worst-hit ares of Brisbane’s flood, an army of volunteers are making lighter work of the clean up.
AG Blog
Should Australia have five seasons?
Is our current model of four seasons working? One expert believes that five seasons is more suitable.
On This Day
On this day: First picture of a tornado in Australia
On 27 September 1911, a violent Australian tornado was captured on film for the first time.
AG Blog
Audio: Researchers make artificial rain in Tasmania
A long-term Australian study is the best evidence so far that cloud seeding really works.
On This Day
On this day: Sydney’s biggest hailstorm
On 14 April 1999, the most expensive natural disaster in Australian history hit Sydney.
AG Blog
A different side to the Queensland floods
Dean Saffron, who photographed hard-hit Grantham in 2011, saw a different response to Cyclone Oswald.
On This Day
On this day: Ash Wednesday bushfires
It’s the anniversary of the huge 1983 Victorian bushfires, and the psychological impact is still being felt.
News
Ice Age struck indigenous Australians hard
Population numbers plummeted due to harsh conditions at the peak of the last Ice Age, says a new study.