Brisbane’s homes are not built for cyclones,but the big issue is debris.

Brisbane homes aren’t built to cyclone standards but here’s what to do

Experts say the real threat to properties isn’t collapsing walls but what will fly through the air once the cyclone hits.

  • Sarah Webb

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Tesla owner Josh Rowe.

Love your Tesla but can’t stand Musk? Sales data says you’re not alone

“When he stood up and made that ‘Sieg Heil’ salute,something just clicked,and I thought:‘I just cannot,cannot drive a Tesla’.”

  • Bianca Hall
Using aircraft to release aerosols could be a method to prevent a cyclone or reduce its intensity.

‘Like preparing to fight a war’:Can we stop a cyclone in its tracks?

Scientists are dusting off Cold War-era research into weather manipulation as climate change intensifies and makes cyclones more dangerous.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

‘As far south as Sydney’:Why cyclones are growing deadlier and heading our way

As south-east Queensland and northern NSW brace for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall this week,climate scientists warn tropical cyclones are moving further from the tropics and bringing more flood risk.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Black cockatoos are in dire straits across WA.

People ‘just picking up’ starving WA cockatoos as burglars target nests

At what point does a pet become a pest? Meanwhile,here’s why one of Perth’s foremost black cockatoo rehab figures is saying he’s ‘never seen anything like it’.

  • Emma Young
Heating Australia:Average temperatures from 1910 to 2024

Heatwaves,fires,torrential rain,fish kills:Australia’s summer of climate extremes

The weather bureau is forecasting a hot autumn across most of Australia,after an unusually hot summer marked by natural disasters.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Liberal candidate for Gilmore Andrew Constance inadvertently helped a teal fundraising push.

How Andrew Constance helped boost $1m teal fundraising blitz

The former NSW Liberal frontbencher turned federal candidate said on Monday a Dutton government would not set a 2035 climate target. He has already walked back the comments.

  • Alexandra Smith andMike Foley
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World urged to stay the course on climate action as Trump turns away

Europe’s top official on climate action says the rest of the world must hold steady on decarbonisation and the transition to renewable energy in the face of “global turmoil”.

  • Bianca Hall andNick O'Malley
Fremantle captain Alex Pearce.

Athletes turn up the heat on politicians over climate change

Not content to ‘stay in their lanes’,some of Australia’s top athletes are signing on to support greater action on climate change leading up to the federal election.

  • Bianca Hall
Flooding devastates Lismore in February 2022.

Why taxpayers should buy back houses most at risk of natural disaster

Some home owners who live in high-risk areas need to move,but it’s a politically difficult conversation,a new report warns.

  • Elizabeth Redman