Emergency crews are scrambling to keep up with rising rivers and widespread damage as a powerful coastal storm battering eastern Australia leaves roads flooded, trees fallen and tens of thousands ...

GOLD COAST, Australia — The outer fringe of a tropical cyclone started whipping eastern Australia on Thursday, bringing drenching rains and record-breaking waves to a heavily populated region ...

Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia holds a unique record of First Nations people. For millennia, they lived on vast plains that are now drowned by the sea.

Environment Eastern Australia is battling fifth major wave of floods in 19 months. More extreme rain has flooded 43 towns in New South Wales, 24 in Victoria and three in Tasmania and the ...