Flood Victims Say Cops Are Relying on Them to Source and Pay For Tools

2022-03-29T15:56+0200vice-com-uk (en)

The east coast of Australia , no stranger to natural disasters, is once again bracing itself for heavy rains, flooding, and ongoing evacuations. As yet another devastating storm makes its way south through Queensland toward the northern rivers of NSW, volunteer-led rescue and recovery efforts have....

‘todos entraron en pánico’ dicen que los residentes se vieron obligados a evacuar por segunda vez en un mes

2022-03-29T12:14+0200notiulti (es)

Miles de residentes del norte de Nueva Gales del Sur que aún se recuperan de las catastróficas inundaciones se vieron obligados a evacuar sus hogares por segunda vez en un mes debido a las fuertes lluvias que azotaron Lismore, Mullumbimby y Tumbulgum. © Proporcionado por The Guardian Fotografía:....

Massive missed opportunity for Climate – Climate Council responds to Federal Budget

2022-03-29T11:44+0200nationaltribune (en)

THE 2022 FEDERAL Budget has failed to deliver any meaningful commitments to address escalating climate change in Australia . Nicki Hutley, Climate Councillor, leading economist and former Partner at Deloitte Access Economics, who was in today’s Budget lockup, has calculated that just 0.

Massive missed opportunity for Climate – Climate Council responds to Federal Budget

2022-03-29T11:25+0200miragenews (en)

THE 2022 FEDERAL Budget has failed to deliver any meaningful commitments to address escalating climate change in Australia . Nicki Hutley, Climate Councillor, leading economist and former Partner at Deloitte Access Economics, who was in today’s Budget lockup, has calculated that just 0.

NSW floods: northern rivers residents forced to evacuate for second time in a month

2022-03-29T06:30+0200guardian (en)

Thousands of northern New South Wales residents still reeling from catastrophic flooding are being forced to evacuate their homes for the second time in a month as heavy rainfall lashes Lismore, Mullumbimby and Tumbulgum. The NSW State Emergency Service responded to 14 flood rescues in the 24 hours to 8am Tuesday in already saturated catchments.

Climate action urgency growing

2022-03-28T05:50+0200BangkokPost (en)

Summertime has arrived in this part of the world, with temperatures rising considerably although we are not yet in April, normally the hottest month in Thailand. I just returned from an island in the eastern province of Trat. The night I arrived, a summer thunderstorm caused an island-wide blackout....

Thunderstorm warnings issued for Sydney, Northern Rivers

2022-03-26T00:28+0100theherald-au (en)

The Bureau of Meteorology issued severe thunderstorm warnings for the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury areas on Friday afternoon as wet weather returned to Sydney. The warning was the latest in a series of alerts issued for across NSW after the bureau also told Wollongong, Bundeena, Kurnell, the Royal....

Severe thunderstorm warnings issued for parts of Sydney and the Northern Rivers

2022-03-25T07:00+0100brisbanetimes (en)

The Bureau of Meteorology issued severed thunderstorm warnings for the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury areas on Friday afternoon as wet weather returned to Sydney. The warning was the latest in a series of alerts issued for across NSW after the bureau also told Wollongong, Bundeena, Kurnell, the Royal....

Weather forecasts won't save us. We must pre-empt monster floods years before they hit

2022-03-23T08:43+0100phys (en)

Most people's lives are largely removed from nature. We spend our days in temperature-controlled rooms, immersed in virtual environments. Our cars transport us from underground car parks to our garages in comfort, no matter what the outside conditions.