All posts by Margaret Cook
Why can floods like those in the Northern Rivers come in clusters?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Right now, Lismore residents are going through their second major flood in a month. On February 28th, the devastating first flood peaked at 14.4 metres, fully two metres higher than the previous record of 12.27 metres in 1954,…
pondering the wisdom of placing our major galleries, libraries and theatres on the banks of a flood-prone river
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. As a historian, I spend many hours at the State Library of Queensland looking out the large glass panels gazing at the Brisbane River. Its tranquil brown water quietly meanders past, offering an ideal place to watch the…