Bush fires
With countries around the world continually beating their own records for both heat and rainfall year on year, extreme weather is becoming more common. Now, as the planet heats up, natural disasters are on the rise. We have seen events from wildfires to hurricanes increasing in frequency and intensity, but how exactly can our changing climate have an effect on natural disasters?
The tennis player slumped to her knees, struggling to breathe, and said she had "never experienced something like this before".
The glossy black cockatoo, Kangaroo Island dunnart and southern corroboree frog are just some of the species that could face extinction.
Coverage of the Australian wildfires by Murdoch's titles has played down their severity, the senior worker points out.
The good Samaritans drove through the devastation on Kangaroo Island to load their car with injured koalas.
US conservatives including Donald Trump Jr and Sean Hannity have shared misleading figures about arsonists igniting bushfires.
Ecologists at the University of Sydney and WWF Australia estimate that a billion is a conservative figure.
Almost 200 'unprecedented' fires are still raging.
"This isn’t a bushfire it’s an atomic bomb."
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was heckled during a visit to Corbago, one of the towns that has been ravaged by bushfires this season. Residents refused to shake the Prime Minister’s hand until he promised more funding, and told him, “you won’t be getting any votes down here, buddy. You’re an idiot.” Morrison is facing increasing pressure as the fires continue to spread.