Nature-inspired responses like planting more trees and revegetating wetlands could reduce flooding in the northern rivers.
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After record rains devastated Lismore in 2022, many businesses have rebuilt with the next flood in mind – from waterproof interiors to running practice evacuations.
After the 2022 Northern Rivers floods, the complex and difficult work of women was largely overlooked.
A new project worked with children after the disastrous 2022 Lismore floods. There are lessons for how to help young people recover from Cyclone Alfred.
Northern Rivers residents are preparing for Cyclone Alfred’s arrival – and drawing lessons from the 2022 floods.
Floods are common in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley north of Sydney. But trends in house prices show us buyers don’t fully grasp the risk
To prepare for more intense floods supercharged by climate change, we have to build infrastructure able to tolerate new extremes
Organising to stop gasfields or coal mines sounds like a similar challenge. But one environmental group has endured, while the other ran out of energy. Here’s why
You might be wondering: what is a ‘Black Nor'easter’, what’s causing all this rain and does it have anything to do with climate change? Here’s what you need to know.
2022 has been Australia’s year of freak floods. Here’s what stricken Victorians are set to experience in the weeks and months ahead.
Again, thousands of residents in Western Sydney face a life-threatening flood disaster. Obviously, nature is a major culprit – but other drivers are also at play.
We can’t let communities face climate change alone. We must get better at adapting to the new climate, and do it before disasters not during.
Flood clusters are not unknown - but what’s new about the floods hitting Lismore is the unprecented height.
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Research Fellow, Rural and Remote Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland
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Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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PhD Student, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, The Living Lab Northern Rivers, Office of Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Education Impact), Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Climate Adaptation, Griffith University
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Professor of Hydrology and Climate Risk, Adelaide University
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Sydney Horizon Fellow, University of Sydney