New year brings new extreme weather threats
Tuesday, 4 January 2022
Good morning, Happy New Year and welcome to the first Canopy of 2022.
Throughout the year, the team at Greenpeace will continue to keep you across all the biggest climate and environment stories as they unfold.
It's slim pickings so far but as the summer arrives so do weather extremes with a cyclone whipping up wild surf conditions along the Queensland coast and bushfires threatening homes in Perth.
Homes under threat from Perth bushfire
People in the path of a bushfire raging in Perth's leafy western suburbs have been urged to leave if they are not prepared to actively defend their homes.
Coastal regions from K'gari (Fraser Island) to northern New South Wales can expect heavy surf and dangerous winds over the coming days as ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth continues to sit off the Queensland coast.
Global warming drives Wet Tropics possum species from their mountain homes
In the dead of night on the dark and often misty mountain peaks of far-north Queensland, researchers and rangers search for possum species that are disappearing from their natural habitat. Climate change is driving them from parts of their mountain homes.
Tasmanian devil released back into the wild after recovering from major leg injury
A Tasmanian devil with horrific injuries to its leg has been nursed back to health and released into the wild.