Helicopter-mounted laser scanners are going where emergency personnel cannot following natural disasters, helping to spot unstable slopes, sinkholes, structural problems and flood-prone zones before ...

Building on this, the Predictions in Public project is developing and testing fire spread prediction maps to improve communication with both emergency services and local communities. The goal is to ...

BYD's premium Denza brand is about to hit Australia, and this is likely to be the first model to wear the Denza badge. The Fangchengbao 5, or Denza B5, is a plug-in hybrid off-road five-seat SUV and ...

Developed by Natural Hazards Research Australia in collaboration with the University of New England (UNE) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the revised index – labelled ADRI-2 – ...

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

On the Beach is often about dealing with the unexpected. On one mission, tar suddenly pools at my feet, and I'm suddenly ...

How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine, if Australians' recent experience of more extreme weather and natural ...

South Australia’s new Biodiversity Act will achieve things no federal or state law has done before. It shows states and ...

The cost of lost economic activity because of natural disasters in 2025 has been estimated at $2.2 billion, after Treasury analysed the impacts of Cyclone Alfred and floods across NSW and Queensland.

Populations of whales that survived decades of hunting now face new dangers as they migrate from Antarctica to Australia. On Wednesday, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) launched an interactive map ...

Canberra, June 2 (UNI) Natural disasters cost the Australian economy billions of dollars in the first months of 2025, according to government data. In an analysis published on Monday, the federal ...