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Monday, July 13

Australia endures driest spring on record

Australia has endured its driest spring on record, setting the scene for a devastating bushfire season in which fierce blazes have swept across the country.

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.

Rain is critically needed to shore up crop production. File image: AAP/Dan Peled

Dry conditions dent farmer confidence

Farmer confidence has plummeted to a five-year low as much of rural Australia deals with drought.

Weak La Nina to dampen summer, bureau predicts

It’s going to be a rainy summer thanks to a La Nina weather system developing in the Pacific Ocean.

"A nightmare ride through the darkened mean streets": How I survived The Rapture

An everyman tale of struggle and salvation in The Great Blackout of 2016, the first statewide outage of the smartphone era.

Thousands still without power as wild weather continues

UDPATED: Thousands of properties across South Australia are still without electricity and SA Power Networks is warning people to prepare for extended outages in the face of more severe weather.

2015 the hottest on record - by a huge margin

Two US government agencies say last year’s global temperature was the hottest ever by a wide margin.