Incredible outback discovery seen from space: 'Suddenly appeared'

In four days, a fire has moved over 100km across the desert, destroying everything in its path. This mega-blaze is so intense ...

Mega-blaze in outback rapidly moves 100km and creates own weather system: 'Never seen it'

In four days, a fire has moved over 100km across the desert, destroying everything in its path. This mega-blaze is so intense ...
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Swimming Beneath Sand, It’s ‘the Hardest of All Animals to Find’

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface. By Anthony Ham If ...

How Scientists Rediscovered This Rare And Elusive Bird That We Thought Was Extinct For 100 Years

While many plants and animals are lost to us forever, this little bird has just been very good at hiding. The night parrot ...

The oceans keep score in a year of record heat around Australia

For the past year, Australia's oceans have been hotter than ever before. The impacts are being felt all across the nation — ...