Sometimes short bursts of heavy rainfall can lead to rapid onset flooding, known as flash flooding. When this is likely to occur, the Bureau will issue a severe weather warning for heavy rain that may ...

Australia's New South Wales was smashed by heavy rains Saturday, forcing multiple evacuation orders and pleas from authorities for people in Sydney to stay at home amid the potentially ...

(CNN) — Communities across the Australian state of Queensland are bracing for more rain after record-breaking floods cut off roads and inundated vast areas of the region’s outback. CNN — (CNN) — ...

As Hanoi endured its heaviest rains in decades on Sept. 30, Australian filmmaker Carl Tomich waded into the streets with his camera to capture how people coped with the flooding. Downpours triggered ...

Accounts of floods recorded in Aboriginal oral history centuries ago could provide vital clues to how climate change will affect flood risk in the future. Scientists working on a disaster adaptation ...

As the effects of climate change intensify across Australia—from record-breaking heatwaves and prolonged droughts to catastrophic bushfires and floods—the nation stands at a defining crossroads.

Could Destroy Much of Great Barrier Reef "The disaster for Australia could also be a disaster for one of their natural treasures," Discover's Andrew Moseman worries. "Besides the immediate danger to ...