An emergency centre has been set up in the New Zealand city of Christchurch after a series of violent
Video Report: Quakes, floods, blizzards, heat waves, and other natural disasters took more lives in 2010 than terrorist attacks
Authorities say floods in Western Australia's Gascoyne region have caused widespread damage to crops and pastoral stations. A station owner
Lightning blasted holes up to four metres wide in Melbourne house roofs as a severe storm hit the city's
The newest addition to the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling fleet is due to leave Hobart this morning for the Southern
Thirty people have been rescued by helicopter from the roof of a property near Gascoyne Junction, 950 kilometres north
Forestry SA says nothing could have prevented 130 hectares of pine forest from blowing over in a gale-force storm
The town of Carnarvon is on track to break its annual rainfall average in less than two days. It has
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says severe thunderstorms stretch from the far north to southern Queensland, but the main
Australian plague locusts have been found on the north-west coast of Tasmania. There have been at least three sightings of