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A string of hot and stormy days has left numerous fires burning across Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia this week.

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The increased rainfall and cloudiness in the western Pacific associated ... following February–April (second map) averaged for thirteen strong La Niña events. La Niña years tend to have increased snow ...

Residents, authorities and pastoralists in the state's north are preparing for a potential cyclone to form in the next two days as a tropical low heads towards "cyclone alley".

In Tom’s Working Mine on the highway, we had a first-hand experience in how Opals are traced and extracted, both by modern ...

In the 1950s, a Melbourne accountant named Rees Withers gathered a small band of explorers to start looking for oil in Victoria’s Gippsland region.