Flooding can devastate livelihoods, but it also breathes new life into arid ecosystems. As the waters spread across western Queensland and north-western New South Wales, they revitalized the landscape ...

In March 2025, an extraordinary deluge in Queensland unleashed massive flooding across Australia's outback, overwhelming ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in Coober Pedy, a remote outback community of about 1,500 people in South Australia that is effectively split in two. Belowground, the town’s mostly White ...

"As one of Australia's very worst weeds, it needs a concerted national focus," she said. "It is an ecosystem transformer — turning diverse Australian plant communities into buffel monocultures ...

Varda Space Industries' W-2 space capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere and touched down in the Australian outback last month, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to land Down Under.