Some of the most intimidating sights in nature are rolling dark clouds of sand and dust that engulf everything in their path, a phenomenon that turns day into night and wreaks havoc everywhere ...

Sand islands off Brisbane – Bribie, Moreton and North Stradbroke – protected the city from the worst of the storm surge. But they took a hammering doing so, reducing their ability to protect ...

Sand islands off Brisbane—Bribie, Moreton and North Stradbroke—protected the city from the worst of the storm surge. But they took a hammering doing so, reducing their ability to protect the ...

Some of Australia’s most famous and popular beaches have been stripped of sand by the storm lashing the east coast and could stay that way for months, in a big hit to tourism and holiday plans ...

That will be repeated in the wake of the storm to measure the impact. Dr Kinsela said it was too early to say exactly how much sand Cyclone Alfred had taken from east coast beaches, but it would ...

Ibarra-Mejia says the dust storm is a perfect combination of the drought, the strong wind systems coming through and the dry soil with no vegetation, causing the sand and dust to uplift easily.