A cyclone on a scale not seen in a "generation" is set to sweep across Australia's east coast, with millions of people in the firing line. Residents are being told to brace themselves for the ...

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years. Tropical ...

Hurricanes and their ilk can strike year-round, as the residents of Brisbane, Australia, are discovering this week. Alfred ‒ called a cyclone, not a hurricane in that part of the world ‒ is taking aim ...

SYDNEY, March 7 (Reuters) - Australia ordered thousands of people in its eastern regions to evacuate before Tropical Cyclone Alfred hits land on Saturday, as the storm brought heavy rain, huge waves ...

Liz Ritchie-Tyo receives funding from The Australian Research Council and the U.S. Office of Naval Research Andrew Dowdy receives funding from University of Melbourne as well as supported through the ...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A tropical cyclone weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday as it approached Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city, bringing flooding rain to the ...

Stratospheric warming high above Antarctica could cause the Southern Hemisphere’s polar vortex to weaken at an unusually fast pace over the coming weeks.