The Latest Breaking News from La Niña

Atmospheric rivers bring much-needed rainfall but the potential to bring devastating floods will become more likely in a warmer world under climate change.

The severe floods in southeast Queensland this week have forced hundreds of residents to flee the town of Gympie and have cut off major roads, after intense rain battered the state for several days. The rain is expected to continue today, and travel south into New South Wales.

La Niña has resulted in a humid summer for much of eastern Australia.

As La Niña propels humidity to record levels on the east coast of Australia, gardeners and groundskeepers talk about the negative and positive impacts of increased moisture on private and public vegetation

March marks the end of southern Africa’s 2021/2022 summer wet-season. Since its onset in October, most summer rainfall zone regions have experienced wetter than normal conditions.

Surfers and anglers are reporting greater-than-usual shark numbers. And there's a very good reason for that, says an environmental scientist.

One effect of La Niña is the later Tasmanian fire season; another effect is it has added to the fuel load — and that is deeply worrying, with many seeming to forget the disasters of the past, one fire expert says.

Experts say higher than normal rainfall could be the reason behind the proliferation of lion's mane jellyfish in Port Phillip Bay this summer.

Well, it’s official: 2021 was one of the planet’s seven hottest years since records began, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) declared this week. The year was about 1.11℃ above pre-industrial levels – the seventh year in a row that the average global temperature rise edged over 1℃.