More delays in global action mean humanity will miss a “brief and rapidly closing window” to secure a liveable future, say experts. We need to focus our attention on these crucial areas.

Unlike cyclones, it is the rain these systems carry that tends to kill. The slower they move, the longer they linger, the more rain they dump.

A risk-mitigation expert warns insurance premiums will rise and become out of reach for some people, but there are ways to reduce the impact of an inevitable escalation in disasters related to climate change.

Australians face the cascading and compounding impacts of natural disasters, but also the risk that we will not adapt fast enough.

Resources minister Keith Pitt wants the offshore environment regulator to ignore the oil and gas sector’s massive indirect emissions but consider its economic benefits, possibly opening its decisions to legal challenge.