What can we learn from the bushfires in Tasmania? Beware of climate change, especially the unpredictable nature of blazes ...

Created by the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre at BAS, the map offers a detailed topographic view of the entire South Orkney archipelago on one side, with a focused, high-resolution map ...

The bushfires on Tasmania's west coast have now burned nearly 95,000 hectares in hard-to-access terrain. Here's how that ...

Houses and fire do not mix. The firestorm which hit Los Angeles in January destroyed nearly 2,000 buildings and forced 130,000 people to ...

Sitting on True North II’s forward sun deck with a mug of tea, I’m given a serene introduction to one of Australia’s most dramatic wildernesses – a Germany-plus-Tasmania-sized chunk of north-western ...

High resolution maps and data, ranging from the most recent day, back to 1900 for rainfall and 1910 for temperature. The links on this page provide gridded datasets for rainfall, temperature, vapour ...

Most of these maximum and minimum temperature maps are produced as both colour and black/white GIF images, with low and high resolution versions available in each case. The low resolution colour GIF ...

And that’s just the beginning: The effects of the storm will continue into early next week, with high winds, brutal wind chills and the potential for heavy lake effect snow through Tuesday.

The best time to visit Tasmania is between December and February ... By May, average temperatures sit in the mid-40s to high 50s, so some operators will close after Easter until winter has ...

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