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Visit Uluru at dusk and you might be surprised to see the ground suddenly light up in technicolour bursts. These blooming fields of vivid yellow, purple and pink are part…

Australia’s a land made for road trips. But mix big distances, high temperatures and lots of liquid, and you’ve got yourself a lot of bathroom breaks. Your average call of…

We’re lucky to have so many iconic critters as part of our landscape: kangaroos, possums, koalas, emus, crocodiles and rhinos. Wait, what? That’s right – in a world-first conservation push…

For a long time scientists believed Indigenous Australians to be the most ancient continuous civilisations on the planet, and now they have the DNA to prove it. A team of researchers…

Greece is blessed with a bounty of natural wonders: the craggy hills of Meteora, the black sands of Santorini…the Twelve Apostles. Wait, what? Rewind that last bit. Turns out Greece’s latest tourism video…

Nice job, Australian Antarctic Division. Not only do you protect our fair shores from an invasion of tiny penguins and harvest the precious ice with which we cool our drinks,…

Good news, Melbournians! Italy is now apparently only a few hours away by car. That’s the message I got from a new map released on Reddit that shows Australia’s ‘Climate Twins’,…

An Aussie spin on the classic Christmas carol

When Mother Nature wants to show off, she comes to Australia. If you strolled along some of Southern Tasmania’s beaches this week, you might have seen the sand turn electric blue under your feet. How? Why? Was it all just a wonderful dream?