South-East Queensland is droughtier and floodier than we thought

July 3, 2018 Jack Coates-Marnane (Griffith University), Joanne Burton (Griffith University), John Tibby (University of Adelaide), Jon Olley (Griffith University), Joseph M. McMahon (Griffith University), Justine Kemp (Griffith University)

New data recording the past 1,500 years of flows in the Brisbane River have revealed that South-East Queensland’s climate – once assumed to be largely stable – is in fact highly variable. Until now, we have only had access to […]

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Trees, corals, ice and caves: Nature’s records of Australian droughts and flooding rains

March 28, 2018 Mandy Freund, Benjamin Henley, David Karoly, Kathryn Allen & Patrick Baker (University of Melbourne)

Australia is a continent of extremes and has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Yet we know little about its past climate. Our new study uses tree rings, corals, ice cores and cave sediments from […]

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