March 23, 2017
Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won’t prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say, the only way to save the world’s coral from …
January 5, 2015
Cooler conditions on Sunday were helping hundreds of firefighters working to contain a massive wildfire that had forced thousands of people to flee their homes in southern Australia. A dozen homes have been destroyed by the fire in the Adelaide …
August 20, 2009
A major inquiry into Australia’s wildfire disaster earlier this year has found that warning systems are dangerously flawed, and residents in vulnerable areas need better, faster information to escape quick-moving infernos. In its interim report, the government-appointed commission into the …
November 18, 2008
A series of violent storms tore across Australia’s East Coast, sweeping one man down a storm drain to his death, blowing roofs off houses and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of buildings. Sunday’s storms dumped golf ball-sized hail …
March 26, 2008
Families of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings have until March 31 to say whether they’ll accept a settlement that would include $100,000 each and the chance to question the governor and university officials about the shooting, a victim’s …