El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.
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Scientists have been monitoring the reef’s health for the past 40 years.
Sustained, sweltering heat is hitting India and Pakistan hard – and humidity is making the situation even more dangerous.
Twin cyclones helped trigger massive ocean warming in the Pacific. But whether that leads to a strong El Niño is still uncertain. Here’s what you need to know.
Equatorial cyclones are rare. That’s one reason Cyclone Senyar has done so much damage in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Wilder, not wetter: climate change means extreme downpours are becoming far more common.
More powerful storms and melting glaciers are flooding communities across the region again, with devastating effects, particularly in the mountains.
Sediments in a lagoon near Darwin hold traces of changes to monsoonal rains over 150,000 years. Here’s what it means as Earth’s polar ice melts.
The worst flooding in 50 years has turned parts of western Queensland into an inland sea, stranding communities and livestock. It’s so vast, it’s set to completely fill Lake Eyre.
One woman has died, as floodwaters continue to rise from Townsville up to Cairns. An environmental geography expert explains what’s behind the floods – and what to watch in coming days.
The big question: Would climate engineering like sending reflective particles into the stratosphere or brightening clouds help reduce the national security risks of climate change or make them worse?
Haphazard construction has made the region more vulnerable to increasingly intense rainfall.
Drought in Europe, dwindling Arctic sea ice, a slow start to the Indian monsoon – unusually hot ocean temperatures can disrupt climate patterns around the world, as an ocean scientist explains.
Remote islands in the Indian Ocean are now strewn with plastic waste – the origin of this waste has until now not been established.
As water dripped in a remote cave, it left behind evidence of every monsoon season for a millennium. Scientists say it holds a warning for a country about to become the most populous on Earth.
Pakistan contributes less than one per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, but has disproportionately felt the impact of climate change.
There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.
Fire season is getting longer, and the result is transforming iconic desert ecosystems. The start to 2022 has been so dire, one governor called for a federal disaster declaration.
Monsoons are weather patterns that bring thunderstorms and heavy rains to hot, dry areas when warm, moist ocean air moves inland. They’re challenging to forecast, especially in a changing climate.
An atmospheric scientist and sailplane pilot describes why large areas of burned land can produce clouds and rainstorms.
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Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Climate scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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PhD Candidate, Oceanography, University of Southampton
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Adjunct Professor (Practice) in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Professor of Sustainability, Azim Premji University
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Professor/Chair Futures Forum, Heriot-Watt University
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Assistant Professor in Climate Variability and Hydrological Change, Coventry University
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Professor, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore
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Lecturer in Monsoon Systems, University of Reading
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Professor of Biogeochemistry, University of Wollongong
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Distinguished visiting professor, University of Glasgow