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GADAus is Australia's leading national organisation providing evidence-based education, training, and resources to address the harmful impacts of gendered expectations in disasters.

A new program in Tasmania, which includes online workshops, is helping people with disability prepare for emergency situations, like bushfires and storms.

New research measures access to nature for major global cities (e.g. Melbourne and Sydney), revealing the lack adequate tree canopy cover, which is vital for cooling, mental and physical health, and biodiversity. This calls for stronger government action.

When spring arrives, so do warnings about thunderstorm asthma. But a decade ago, most of us hadn't heard of it.

People pay less for homes in high flood-risk areas but often ignore the risk of rarer, severe floods (e.g.1-in-1,000 years). As climate change intensifies, underestimating low-probability but high-impact floods can lead to significant losses.

With frequent megafires threatening biodiversity, a study of Australia’s 2019-2020 fires highlights the need to limit fire frequency, expand protected areas, and consider drought effects. Ecosystem-specific management and long-term monitoring are key.

This paper presents the development of an artificial neural network "metamodel" that can predict the burn probability outputs of computationally expensive process-based fire simulation models.

Climate change is intensifying extreme rainfall, leading to more severe floods like those in Spain. Australia's updated flood design guidance reflects higher rainfall increases, but existing infrastructure may not cope. Urgent adaptation is needed.