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This tree fell onto a restaurant in the Brisbane suburb of Teneriffe during Cyclone Alfred.

Insurance claims for wild weather damage this year already exceed 2024 total

One major insurer has received 32,000 claims for wild weather-related damage to both vehicles and property between January and May this year, more than for the whole of last year.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley

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People braving the cold weather on the St Kilda foreshore.

We were promised a warm winter. So why is it so cold?

If you believe the weather bureau, Australia is expecting a warm, wet winter. If you believe your own senses when stepping outside, it is distinctly chilly.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The new tool can provide flood predictions on a resolution of five by five metres.

‘World first’: 5G spy will know if your home’s at risk of disaster

Sent a text today? Your phone could soon be part of an enormous, highly accurate monitoring tool.

  • Angus Dalton
Visitors pose with a man in a Trump mask outside the White House. The US remains one of the best travel destinations in the world, regardless of who’s in charge.

Should you boycott the US? The 20 biggest questions in travel right now

We posed 20 of the most pressing questions that should be on travellers’ minds to a group of experts across a range of categories. Here’s what they had to say.

  • Lee Tulloch
Landslide in Sassafras

‘Likely and imminent’: Thousands of Dandenongs homes at risk of landslides

Communities in the Yarra Ranges face a growing risk of landslides, with a council report identifying thousands of properties that require erosion controls.

  • Adam Carey
The exceptionally warm oceans are making heat waves worse, disrupting marine life and destroying coral reefs.

‘Fast running out of time to turn the tide’: Australia at sea in vast marine heatwave

The World Meteorological Organisation has confirmed 2024 was the hottest year on record in the south-west Pacific, breaking the previous record set in 2023.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
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In one awful decision, Albanese has revealed his do-nothing plan

If you want to govern effectively, you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to do that.

  • Ross Gittins
Sydney’s Bronte Beach is hit with strong winds and pounding surf.

What winter has in store for Sydney and NSW

The weather bureau is predicting a warmer, wetter winter for most of the country, but the outlook for most of the NSW coast is neutral.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Duncan Barber on his parched property near Redesdale.

‘Seemingly endless fire season’ predicted for Victoria this winter

Climate scientists say “warmer than normal” predictions are “defined against a normal that was in the past”.

  • Bianca Hall and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Aftermath of glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland

‘I lost everything’: Swiss residents in shock after glacier debris buries village

Local people are struggling to take in the devastation after their village was buried by millions of cubic metres of ice, mud and rock.

  • Dave Graham

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