Fire, wind and water: The new normal in a land Down Under

WINDSOR, Australia: Seventeen-year-old Rory Kirkland has lived in Australia for three years, but he has already experienced the full range of the country’s extreme weather, from searing heat to unprecedented bushfires and now floodwaters lapping the door of his family home. Most of the year, the Hawkesbury River meanders calmly through the sandstone escarpment, valleys […]