Swathes of South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia are in the grip of drought as they experience some of ...

Open a book of maps and look for the “Indo-Pacific” region – it likely won’t be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

USS Blue Ridge, a U.S. Navy command and control ship, has visited four countries in the South Pacific since mid- April.

A rarely spotted “supergiant” crustacean related to woodlice is actually a common inhabitant of the sea floor, a new study ...

Nature is the foundation of civilization and humanity's most powerful ally. From the air we breathe to the food we eat, our ...

Dating back to a German geographer favoured by Hitler and popularised by a former Japanese PM, the term was a strategic ...

As you can see from the map below for the week ending July 17 ... However, other factors are at play too, including the overall warming trend of Australia's climate, the record warm Indian Ocean more ...

Australian mean rainfall deciles during October–December (first map) and the following February–April (second ... Some La Niña events occur at the same time as a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD).

Australia is quietly moving faster than any other continent on Earth, shifting nearly 7 centimeters each year. This ...

The heaviest falls on Friday will be concentrated around Sydney in the morning, before shifting to the South Coast, and could ...