Fields of gold: Australia’s wheat industry contributes more than A$5 billion to the economy each year.
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Australia's wheat harvest has stalled over the past 26 years, and worsening weather is to blame.
Sydneysiders cool off in heatwave conditions gripping eastern Australia in January 2017.
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2016 is the third consecutive hottest year on record. How can we adapt?
Sixteen of the 17 hottest years have occurred this century and we know it’s because of a changing climate, not changes in weather.
For the third consecutive year, it's the hottest year ever. A climate scientist explains how these predictions are made and why they're completely different from forecasting the weather.
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The UK really does have the wrong type of snow.
Surf’s up: September storms brought waves, wind and flooding to South Australia.
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2016 was Australia's fourth warmest year on record, capping off the hottest decade.
In Darwin the wet season usually arrives around Christmas Day.
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The Australian monsoon delivers most of northern Australia's rainfall and is a vital feature of life in the region. But why does it occur?
Wildfires in Tasmania in 2016 were in part the result of an extended dry period beginning in 2015.
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October 2015 was the hottest on record for that month, and Tasmania had its driest ever spring.
Mysterious gas giant is about 1,000 light years away.
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Ruby and sapphire clouds may be hovering over exoplanet HAT-P-7b.
Very powerful, try to avoid.
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Lightning strikes are powerful – but we haven't had solid estimates of their energy until now. Researchers turned to the hollow stone tubes they create by vaporizing sand for more precise calculations.
After the storm … Researchers are working together to predict future outbreaks of thunderstorm asthma.
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Researchers from a range of disciplines need to work together if we are to predict and prepare for the next thunderstorm asthma event.
Cape Grim, on the northwest tip of Tasmania, is exposed to some of the cleanest air in the world.
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Cape Grim's air pollution station has recorded some of the biggest changes to the world's atmosphere over the past 40 years.
Flooding on the Niemur River near Moulamein, Australia, October 22, 2016.
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The final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century to avoid it becoming the hottest year.
More heatwaves in store, but the exact effects on people are harder to predict.
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Heatwaves are Australia's deadliest type of natural disaster. But while we know a lot about the weather patterns behind them, more research is needed to forecast accurately their impacts on people.
Australia’s 2013 ‘angry’ summer was characterised by heatwaves and major bushfires. Such a summer will be normal by 2035.
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Global temperatures like 2015 will by normal by 2030, and Australia's record-breaking 2013 summer will likely be an average summer by 2035.
Australia’s had a cooler and wetter winter, but the rest of the world has been hot.
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Since April 2015, each month has been the hottest on record and it's the longest hot streak on record.
Peak hour making you hot under the collar? It’s not just you.
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Do you ever feel that the weather is worse on the weekend? Well you might be right!
Tropical Cyclone Carlos approaches Western Australia in February 2011.
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Australia is facing an above-average cyclone season, with at least 11 cyclones likely in the region.
A contaminated water sign on the sand following a rainstorm in Imperial Beach, California, December 2014.
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Resistant bacteria enter our aging sewer infrastructure and may eventually end up in the environment through sewage spills.
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Here's the science behind the amazing colours we should see on British trees this year.
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Will 2017 be a 'bbq summer'? It depends on changes in the jet stream.