Giant hail batters Australia as spring storm leaves tens of thousands without power - Brisbane records hailstones as large as ...

Amid more extreme weather events, parametric insurance — described as a bet on the weather —is on the rise. It is now being touted as a possible solution for Australians, who have some of the highest ...

Wild footage has revealed the shocking devastation caused by a major storm that ripped through South East Queensland on Monday, with more than 90,000 homes and businesses still without power – and ...

Mining in Australia is facing an increasingly unpredictable weather landscape, with companies balancing operational risks ...

(Bloomberg) — Australia will experience an increase in extreme heat, intense rainfall and coral-bleaching events, as well as longer fire seasons and more rapidly rising sea levels, according to the ...

A new federal funding push will support communities living under threat of extreme weather events, including flood, fire and ...

Fewer than two in five Aussies feel well-prepared for severe weather, despite four in five having already experienced it.

Australians have woken up to teeth-chattering lows on Wednesday morning, with several parts of the country plunging to 0C.

A brutal heat wave building over Australia could come perilously close to toppling the country’s all-time high temperature record—no small feat when the nation routinely broils beneath the hot summer ...

This week, insurers will be in Clifton to meet with residents whose properties were affected by the severe hailstorm and ...

Frogs need water. But new research into how bushfires and floods impact them finds they can have too much of a good thing.

When the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology released their State Of The Climate 2014 report on March 4 it should have made headlines for days, provoked a big parliamentary discussion and a public ...