A trail from Alice Springs takes hikers through a baking landscape of mountains, pools, plants and trees that inspired an ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with unconfirmed sightings suggesting it may still exist. A fascinating native Australian ...

Researcher Ann Raiho measures sunlight interacting with yellow Coreopsis gigantea flowers during field work in the Jack and ...

These tough, hardy plants saw the dinosaurs come and ... 200 years old have been found on boab trees in Northern Australia’s Tanami Desert. While these special trees are usually found far ...

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo ... help to focus search efforts on specific regions where these plants grow. The desert rat-kangaroo was known to eat mostly leaves of plants ...

Out in the bush consisting of small-sized Mallee eucalypt shrubs, shade is a rarity. Meanwhile, the pale tufts of spinifex ...

Plants and other organisms reduce greenhouse ... There are contrasts between the states. Western Australia has 158 million hectares of desert while Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital ...

But new research suggests that millions of years ago, iguanas pulled off the 5,000-mile odyssey on a raft of floating ...

In the last year, prices for solar PV and battery storage have plunged between 20 and 47 per cent. Australia needs to seize the moment.