Bushfires one day, floods the next: why Australia can expect more 'compound events'

Floods or fires are worrying enough, but as Gippsland has experienced this week, combined they are even more extreme, experts sayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAs unseasonably early bushfires tore through Gippsland in Victoria on Tuesday, residents of the same region were told to prepare for major flooding."It's the first time the Victorian emergency map showed flood warnings and fire warnings for the same area on the same day," says the Wellington shire mayor, Ian Bye. Continue reading...