After two years of severe drought, abundant rain finally fell over the Australian state and turned the landscape green.
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This vegetation image from March 2010 shows lush vegetation growing in Australia’s interior, where developing swarms of locusts had been spotted.
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Fires, bumper crops, and encephalitis could follow.
Overdue rain changed the landscape of Australia’s capital city of Canberra in October 2010.
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Bushfire counts dipped in mid-January when much-needed rainfall poured down on New South Wales and Victoria.
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This rainfall map shows the concentrated area of intense rain that led to devastating flash flooding in Queensland, Australia, on January 10, 2011.
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Drought
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In November 2008, the Australian Plague Locust Commission reported that a few small swarms of locusts had started to develop in New South Wales.
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