A slow-moving tropical storm has crossed Australia’s heavily populated eastern coast, lashing the region with damaging winds and heavy rain that’s forecast to fall for days to come.

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

A storm, even once it has passed, can leave traces in the ocean that last for thousands of years. These consist of sediment layers composed of coarse particles, which are different from the finer ...

The slow-moving tropical storm, named Alfred, is on track to bring dangerous winds and flooding along the coast of Queensland and New South Wales, including Brisbane. transcript Dangerous ...

adding that it was "crucially important" the public did not "dismiss" the storm. "It really doesn't matter to us whether it's been downgraded from a tropical cyclone to a weather event," he said.

which spawned last week amid a rare trio of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific, is forecast to make landfall in southern Queensland near Brisbane, Australia, on Thursday. Although the storm ...