Australia’s heat waves, now an annual ordeal, have been expanding into new territory — like Tasmania, where more than 50 wildfires were burning as of Friday.

Flowering is occurring months early.

Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.

Australia has had its warmest July on record, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has said. A BOM report released today shows the country's average July temperature was at its highest in more than 100 years of weather recording.

As Australia faces historic drought conditions, the impacts of climate change are increasingly difficult to ignore.