Andrew Gissing, Paul Somerville and Ryan Crompton, Risk Frontiers Introduction The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration established to provide an independent, global monitoring…
The following information is taken from a report by Kevin Fagan in the San Francisco Chronicle, 17 August 2018. The California Department of Forestry and…
Thomas Mortlock, Ian Goodwin The heavy rain, large waves, strong winds and high tides impacting northern NSW and southeast Queensland this week come with the…
This briefing is excerpted with the kind permission of Ruth Cooper, Digital Editor at Mahlab, from an article by Charlotte Barkla that appears on createdigitial.org.au,…
A view of Australia’s climate in 2020 Stuart Browning, Tom Mortlock, Andrew Gissing and Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers The recently released biennial BoM/CSIRO State of…
Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers Even after months of extensive research by the global scientific community, many questions about the spread of the SARS-Covid-2 pandemic remain…
Paul Somerville, Chief Geoscientist, Risk Frontiers Large transoceanic tsunamis have impacts that extend far from the earthquake that cause them, and so it often occurs…
Paul Somerville and Ryan Crompton, Risk Frontiers Insurers are gearing up for what is likely to be one of the most expensive insured cargo and…
This nicely written and well-researched article by Brooke Jarvis appeared in the New York Times Magazine on April 23, 2017, with the headline: Under Water. It…
By Andrew Gissing and Jonathan Van Leeuwen Lismore has a long history of flooding, with the community known for its ‘flood culture’. The areas of…