PM seeing devastation of WA flooding

2023-01-09T00:56+0100illawarramercury (en)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Western Australia to visit the remote Kimberley region and view the devastation caused by record flooding. Recovery efforts have begun in the desert town of Fitzroy Crossing which has borne the brunt of floodwaters now heading west.

PM seeing devastation of WA flooding

2023-01-09T00:36+0100portstephensexaminer (en)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Western Australia to visit the remote Kimberley region and view the devastation caused by record flooding. Recovery efforts have begun in the desert town of Fitzroy Crossing which has borne the brunt of floodwaters now heading west.

PM seeing devastation of WA flooding

2023-01-08T23:57+0100maitlandmercury (en)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Western Australia to visit the remote Kimberley region and view the devastation caused by record flooding. Recovery efforts have begun in the desert town of Fitzroy Crossing which has borne the brunt of floodwaters now heading west.

Cientos de personas trasladadas en avión después de que las inundaciones aislaran comunidades en Australia

2023-01-08T11:43+0100101noticias (es)

Cientos de personas fueron transportadas por aire después de que las inundaciones aislaran comunidades en Australia . Foto de Kathie-Nichols Shutterstock.com. Las autoridades en el noroeste de Australia envían helicópteros militares para rescatar a las personas después de que las inundaciones récord inunden la región.

Climate change is making flooding worse: 3 reasons the world is seeing more record-breaking deluges and flash floods

2023-01-08T07:49+0100thehindu (en)

In June, flooding hit mountains in the Western U.S., where rain combined with melting snow can be particularly destructive. Storms dumped up to 5 inches of rain over three days in and around Yellowstone National Park, rapidly melting snowpack. | Photo Credit: Reuters.

RAAF moves emergency teams into Kimberley

2023-01-08T02:57+0100nationaltribune (en)

A Royal Australia n Air Force C-130J aircraft has transported a team of more than 50 Western Australian emergency services workers to Broome to support the flood emergency in the state’s Kimberley region. The C-130 Hercules aircraft picked up the personnel – which included members from the Department....

Australian PM vows to provide support, as flood grips West Australia7min

2023-01-07T12:01+0100presstv-ir (en)

Australia n Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to provide whatever support was needed to residents of Western Australia as record-breaking floods have caused a “devastating impact” on isolated towns. “My government stands ready to provide whatever support is requested,” Albanese told reporters....

Arlie Felton-Taylor

2023-01-05T22:49+0100abc-au (en)

By and Arlie Felton-Taylor Anyone can buy the herbicide 2,4-D from a shop, but its misuse may have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to cotton crops, prompting calls for more controls. By , and Alys Marshall The beef industry is worried the increased cost of living could prompt a review of....

Thousands of Aussies wake to darkness as monster storm hits

2023-01-05T01:34+0100dailymail (en)

Hot temperatures between the high 20s and low 30s are predicted for the rest of the week, with a cool change expected on Friday. As La Nina weakens over the summer, early climate models suggest 2023 will switch to an El Nino, bringing bushfires, drought and heatwaves during summer.

Victoria approves cull of 50,000 more kangaroos than last year despite unknown flood impact

2023-01-05T00:44+0100guardian (en)

Victoria has signed off on a plan to increase the number of kangaroos legally killed in the state by a third, in a move criticised by animal welfare advocates. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action has released a report on the state’s commercial kangaroo harvesting program and “authority to control wildlife” permit scheme.

Australian weather: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth: One million lighting strikes

2023-01-04T15:38+0100whatsnew2day (en)

More than a million lightning strikes were recorded in a widespread storm that hit two states this week. Victoria and NSW were hit by massive thunderstorms on Monday as a cold front spread from the country’s northwest all the way to the southeast. It was then that 1,023,173 lightning strikes were....

More Flooding Misery for Weather-Weary Australia

2023-01-04T09:31+0100nigeriasun (en)

Sydney - Heavy rainfall is bringing more dangerous flooding to Australia . The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for Western Australia, and officials say once-in-a-century flooding has hit areas in the north of the state. The Australian military has been called in to help....

More Flooding Misery for Weather-Weary Australia

2023-01-04T09:17+0100longbeachstar (en)

Sydney - Heavy rainfall is bringing more dangerous flooding to Australia . The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for Western Australia, and officials say once-in-a-century flooding has hit areas in the north of the state. The Australian military has been called in to help....

More Flooding Misery for Weather-Weary Australia

2023-01-04T09:03+0100northernirelandnews (en)

Sydney - Heavy rainfall is bringing more dangerous flooding to Australia . The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for Western Australia, and officials say once-in-a-century flooding has hit areas in the north of the state. The Australian military has been called in to help....

More Flooding Misery for Weather-Weary Australia

2023-01-04T08:53+0100cambodiantimes (en)

Sydney - Heavy rainfall is bringing more dangerous flooding to Australia . The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for Western Australia, and officials say once-in-a-century flooding has hit areas in the north of the state. The Australian military has been called in to help....

More Flooding Misery for Weather-Weary Australia

2023-01-04T08:24+0100voanews (en)

Sydney — Heavy rainfall is bringing more dangerous flooding to Australia . The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for Western Australia, and officials say once-in-a-century flooding has hit areas in the north of the state. The Australian military has been called in to help....

E’ Capodanno tra vecchie e nuove celebrazioni: scopriamole insieme a Spazio Viaggi

2022-12-31T20:00+0100castellinews (it)

Tra la notte del 31 dicembre e la mattina del 1 gennaio, le persone in molti paesi di tutto il mondo festeggiano (e molti lo hanno già fatto) l’inizio di un nuovo anno. Ma come è iniziata questa tradizione? Scopriamolo insieme agli appassionati di Capodanno, vecchie celebrazioni.

Fire And Emergency Honours Recipients Congratulated

2022-12-31T02:48+0100scoop-co-nz (en)

"On behalf of everyone in Aotearoa, I would like to congratulate them on receiving this very special honour," says Rebecca Keoghan. Additional information about each recipient: Mr Richard Mark (Mac) MCNAMARA. Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to Fire and Emergency New Zealand and emergency management.

Fire and Emergency Honours recipients congratulated

2022-12-30T23:40+0100voxy (en)

Fire and Emergency New Zealand Board Chair Rebecca Keoghan has congratulated six firefighters and support personnel from Blenheim, Porirua, Waipawa, Ngaruawahia, Mapua and Omarama who have been recognised in the 2022 New Year’s Honours list released today.

Mathematics, Vol. 11, Pages 179: The Moving Firefighter Problem

2022-12-29T11:54+0100mdpi (en)

The original formulation of the firefighter problem defines a discrete-time process where a fire starts at a designated subset of the vertices of a graph G . At each subsequent discrete time unit, the fire propagates from each burnt vertex to all of its neighbors unless they are defended by a....

Retrospective 2022 in pictures: The climate in all its states

2022-12-28T17:43+0100tellerreport (en)

2022-12-28T16:41:13.550Z. Climate change has blown hot and cold across the planet this year The year 2022 has seen an increase in disasters linked to global warming. The summer was the hottest ever recorded in Europe, with record temperatures and heat waves causing drought and dramatic fires, as in....

AccaddeOggi 28 dicembre 1943 -I fratelli Cervi fatti prigionieri, vengono fucilati dai fascisti a Reggio Emilia

2022-12-28T12:34+0100welfarenetwork (it)

AccaddeOggi 28 dicembre 1943-I fratelli Cervi fatti prigionieri, vengono fucilati dai fascisti a Reggio Emilia. Il 28 dicembre è il 362º giorno del calendario gregoriano (il 363º negli anni bisestili). Mancano 3 giorni alla fine dell'anno. 418 – Bonifacio I diventa papa.

Cambio climático deja multimillonaria factura por desastres

2022-12-28T06:11+0100elcolombiano (es)

Los efectos del cambio climático también están dejando un golpe económico que ahora le toca el bolsillo a los países en desarrollo. Eso se pudo establecer luego de que la ONG británica Christian Aid realizara un estudio para identificar los desastres meteorológicos más caros de 2022.

Record-breaking rains and scorching heat: 2022 had it all

2022-12-25T03:46+0100watoday (en)

This year has had it all: record-breaking heat in Western Australia , and heavy rains and flooding across the east coast. For many locations across the country where river beds were cracked and dry three years ago, they are now flowing with brown floodwater after weeks of heavy rainfall.

Record-breaking rains and scorching heat: 2022 had it all

2022-12-25T03:40+0100theherald-au (en)

This year has had it all: record-breaking heat in Western Australia , and heavy rains and flooding across the east coast. For many locations across the country where river beds were cracked and dry three years ago, they are now flowing with brown floodwater after weeks of heavy rainfall.

Record-breaking rains and scorching heat: 2022 had it all

2022-12-25T03:36+0100theage (en)

This year has had it all: record-breaking heat in Western Australia , and heavy rains and flooding across the east coast. For many locations across the country where river beds were cracked and dry three years ago, they are now flowing with brown floodwater after weeks of heavy rainfall.

Record-breaking rains and scorching heat: 2022 had it all

2022-12-25T03:36+0100smh (en)

This year has had it all: record-breaking heat in Western Australia , and heavy rains and flooding across the east coast. For many locations across the country where river beds were cracked and dry three years ago, they are now flowing with brown floodwater after weeks of heavy rainfall.

Record-breaking rains and scorching heat: 2022 had it all

2022-12-25T03:35+0100brisbanetimes (en)

This year has had it all: record-breaking heat in Western Australia , and heavy rains and flooding across the east coast. For many locations across the country where river beds were cracked and dry three years ago, they are now flowing with brown floodwater after weeks of heavy rainfall.

‘Terrified of the bath’: Tragic reality of floods

2022-12-24T05:27+0100news_com_au (en)

Former X-Factor star Jason Owen has been travelling through the remote areas with his charity Doin’ it for Rural Aussie Kids, handing out Christmas presents. He told NCA NewsWire what he has seen in the past few weeks has been harrowing. Mr Owen said young children in Eugowra, NSW, had been faced....

OBSERVER: 2022: a year of extremes

2022-12-23T21:01+0100copernicus (en)

The year 2022 saw record droughts, temperatures, wildfires, floods and an all-time low in Antarctic sea ice, many of them characterised by one word: extremes. Precipitation, or the absence thereof, has played a key role in several extreme weather or climate-related events, with historical droughts....

23.12.2022 Australia - Victorian farmers seek more government support after recent wild weather Farmers across north-east Victoria and the Goulburn Valley say post-floodinvestmentin roads and infrastructure is crucial as they look to bounce back from a wet spring.

2022-12-23T18:31+0100agroinsurance (en)

Farmers across north-east Victoria and the Goulburn Valley say post-flood investment in roads and infrastructure is crucial as they look to bounce back from a wet spring. The Victorian Farmers Federation said while there was cautious optimism following improved weather conditions after a flood-ravaged spring, a number of challenges remained.

23.12.2022 Australia - Victorian farmers seek more government support after recent wild weather Farmers across north-east Victoria and the Goulburn Valley say post-floodinvestmentin roads and infrastructure is crucial as they look to bounce back from a wet spring.

2022-12-23T18:04+0100agroinsurance-en (en)

Farmers across north-east Victoria and the Goulburn Valley say post-flood investment in roads and infrastructure is crucial as they look to bounce back from a wet spring. The Victorian Farmers Federation said while there was cautious optimism following improved weather conditions after a flood-ravaged spring, a number of challenges remained.

Every Australian will be touched by climate change. So let’s start a national conversation about how we’ll cope

2022-12-21T20:19+0100nationaltribune (en)

“When Home Affairs was created, the discussion about climate change and national security was largely academic. Indeed, it was derided by the former government,” O’Neil said. “Just five years on, climate change is a recognised, growing part of Australia ’s national security picture.

UN inaugurates houses in earthquake-ravaged southeast Afghanistan

2022-12-19T19:14+0100reliefWeb (en)

Less than six months after an earthquake devastated villages in remote southeast Afghanistan, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has completed work on hundreds of new homes. At a ceremony in Barmal district in Afghanistan’s Paktika Province on Thursday, community leaders, senior UN officials and the....

'We're absolutely despairing': Doctors claim lives at risk as health services struggle to rebuild after floods

2022-12-19T03:39+0100newsnow-co-uk (en)

Lismore doctors say lives are being put at risk as many frontline health providers struggle to rebuild their businesses after the floods. "We've had delayed cancer diagnoses," Dr Nina Robertson said. The general practitioner is a partner in a Keen Street medical clinic in Lismore that incurred $2....

'We're absolutely despairing': Doctors claim lives at risk as health services struggle to rebuild after floods

2022-12-19T03:05+0100abc-au (en)

The New South Wales government has rejected accusations by doctors groups that it is to blame for the lack of frontline medical services in the Lismore region, nearly 10 months on from catastrophic floods. Lismore doctors say lives are being put at risk as many frontline health providers struggle to rebuild their businesses after the floods.

mundos acuáticos

2022-12-17T14:38+0100vistaalmar (es)

Los océanos del planeta contenían casi el doble de agua. A lo largo del tiempo el nivel del mar ha subido y bajado con las temperaturas, pero siempre se supuso que era constante el agua superficial total de la Tierra. Ahora, aumenta la evidencia de que hace unos 3 mil millones a 4 mil millones de....

The devastating natural disaster that's going to get more intense22 minutes ago

2022-12-10T21:32+01009news (en)

The report also noted there were an estimated 1593 fatalities from tropical cyclone winds and floods from 1830 to 1989, but these figures are imperfect due to flaws and inaccuracies in historical records. The records show over time tropical cyclone fatalities and death rates have dropped due to more efficient warning systems.

As a climate activist who has been jailed in Russia, I’m concerned about Australia’s treatment of Violet Coco | Arshak Makichyan

2022-12-09T02:04+0100guardian (en)

T he case of climate protester Violet Coco, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for briefly blocking a lane of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is a frightening development. This was a peaceful protest, but the court refusing her bail until March is a condition usually imposed on violent criminals, according to her lawyer.

$22 million for flood-affected primary industries supply chain

2022-12-09T01:16+0100nationaltribune (en)

Agricultural processing businesses that were impacted by the February and March 2022 floods are being assisted to re-establish operations through the Australia n and NSW Government’s $22 million Supply Chain Support Program. Federal Minister for Emergency Management, Senator the Hon Murray Watt said....

$22 million for flood-affected primary industries supply chain

2022-12-09T01:16+0100miragenews (en)

Agricultural processing businesses that were impacted by the February and March 2022 floods are being assisted to re-establish operations through the Australia n and NSW Government’s $22 million Supply Chain Support Program. Federal Minister for Emergency Management, Senator the Hon Murray Watt said....

AI Finally Gives Everyone A Voice... Whether We Like It Or Not!

2022-12-08T08:14+0100forbes (en)

Surveys and focus groups replace the forum but with limitations. While the Agora and Forum worked well previously, with the growth of much larger cities and a move to written culture, finding out what a large number of people think has become more challenging.