Australia warming more than rest of world: BoM

Australia’s temperatures are increasing more than the global average, the nation’s weather bureau says.

Bushfires fanned by hottest, driest season on record: BoM

It’s the first time since overlapping records began that Australia experienced both its lowest rainfall and highest temperatures in the same year, says the Bureau of Meteorology’s David Jones, Karl Braganza and Skie Tobin.

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Murray Darling Basin drought officially worst on record

The devastating drought across Australia’s east has reached uncharted territory, with the weather bureau officially declaring it the Murray Darling Basin’s worst dry spell.

More heatwaves and floods for Australia: State of the Climate report

Australians face the prospect of sweating through more intense heatwaves and being swamped by more frequent downpours of heavy rain in the coming decades as a result of climate change.