Heatwaves are among the world’s deadliest weather hazards. Every year, vast numbers of people are killed by heat stress and it can worsen health problems such as diabetes, asthma and heart disease.

A leading Victorian state high school, widely praised for its green “passive cooling”, cut classes ended early because the ...

The Act on Climate collective at Friends of the Earth Melbourne is holding a Climate Adaptation Fair this Saturday the 8th of February at the Borderlands Cooperative in Footscray as part of the ...

A second woman has died in floodwaters in a rain-hit Queensland region as showers begin to ease following days of torrential ...

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast a top of 36 degrees in the city on Tuesday after it stayed above 24 degrees overnight.

A sodden community still reeling from a 63-year-old woman's death is bracing for more rain with a 58-year-old flood record at ...

Victorians can look forward to some cool relief from the state’s stifling heatwave conditions as a rapid cool change gets set ...

Temperatures in the Coral Sea have been 1-2 degrees warmer than average. The adjoining coastline has just seen 1-1.5 metres ...

The sugar-growing centre of Ingham, from where Queensland Premier David Crisafulli hails, was without mains power for a ...

The rain-soaked north of the country will continue to face heavy rainfall for days, while fires and wild storms continue to ...

The former ACCC head says his warnings to Victorian Labor were ignored, as wild storms in the state left more than 45,000 ...

Residents across regional Victoria are on high alert this afternoon, with heatwave conditions intensifying bushfires across ...