Australian authorities on Sunday urged thousands of people in north Queensland state to move to higher ground due to flooding caused by torrential rains.

The weather bureau says some locations along the north tropical coast have received up to 700 millimetres of rain since Monday morning and there is more to come.

Six storms around Australia and its territories are expected to strengthen in the coming days, with one system likely to ...

The Daintree rainforest lies on the east coast of Australia in the tropical region of North Queensland ... leafy canopies help control the global climate and mitigate the effects of global ...

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On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree ... canopies play a crucial role in regulating the global climate—and mitigating global warming.

The climate driver aided a wetter than usual December for much of Queensland. It comes off the ... NINO3.4 value and subtracts the temperature of the tropical ocean surface within 20N and 20S.

The Bureau of Meteorology warned there was up to a 70 per cent chance rainfall would exceed median levels from North Queensland right ... There have been fewer tropical low weather systems this ...