Gum trees dot the hills and valleys of south-eastern Australia, a vivid fixture of the rolling landscape. But despite the seeming health of these iconic trees, they have earned the morbid nickname ...

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(CNN) — When Lisa Michele Burns set out to photograph Australia in 2022, she didn’t quite realize how enormous it was. She recalled a growing sense of panic on the second of her two four-month road ...

Between about 45,000 and 50,000 years ago, Australia experienced three radical changes. The continent was once home to a menagerie of giant creatures, or megafauna, such as marsupial versions of lions ...

Lenie Namatjira, "Mt Gillen, near Alice Springs" (2016), watercolor and fiber-tipped pen over pencil, 7.87 x 11 inches (© Lenie Namatjira/Licensed by Copyright ...

Despite once being described as common, mammals have been lost across the Australian landscape over the last 200 years. The impact has been particularly severe on Australia’s digging mammals, ...

Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to new ...