Unveiling Ancient Climate Change: Australia’s Transformation From Lush to Dust
Curtin University researchers have uncovered the time frame of when the Nullarbor Plain in Australia became arid using a novel method, illuminating the impact of…
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How Will Humans Survive an Apocalypse? A New Study Has an Answer
A study of Western Australia and China during the COVID-19 epidemic suggests that one possibility is to establish a safe refuge. Establishing a safe refuge…
Tropical Trees Are Dying Twice As Fast Due to Climate Change
According to new research, climate change may have caused rainforest trees to die more quickly starting in the 1980s. The results of a long-term international…
Map of Life Will Need to Be Redrawn and Textbooks Updated After Highly Surprising Discovery on Christmas Island
The world’s animal distribution map will need to be redrawn and textbooks updated, after researchers discovered the existence of ‘Australian’ species on Christmas Island. The…
Latest NASA Satellite Observations of Australia’s Bushfires Show Smoke Going Round the World
NASA scientists using data from its NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite, have traced the movement of the smoke coming off the Australian fires across the globe…
Aerosol Spread From Ferocious Australian Fires [Video]
Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought, and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season…
World Path of Smoke and Aerosols From Australian Fires Animated by Fleet of NASA Satellites
A fleet of NASA satellites working together has been analyzing the aerosols and smoke from the massive fires burning in Australia. The fires in Australia…
Australia: Like a Furnace – Incredible Satellite Images Reveal Ferocious Bushfires
Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought, and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season…
Satellite View of Australian Fires Shows Severe Burn Scars Across Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass NASA’s Terra satellite provided before and after imagery that showed the extent of…
Stunning Satellite Images As Rain Brings Relief to Australia’s Fires
NASA satellite data continues to provide a look at the smoke and aerosols generated by the massive fires in Australia. Although rain fell on parts…
Satellite Imagery Shows Ferocious Fires in Australia Intensify
As the New Year starts, the outlook for the bushfire situation in Australia continues to be grim. These huge and disastrous fires continue to burn…
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life Takes Mars Scientists on Expedition to Australia
As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and then there are rocks. Next July, NASA and the European…
Satellite Image Captures Bushfires Raging in Australia
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured the multiple bushfires burning across Australia’s east coast. Around 150 fires are still burning in New South Wales and Queensland,…
Lessons in Environmental Land Management From Indigenous People
Lessons from first nations governance in environmental management. As large-scale agriculture, drought, bushfire and introduced species reduce entire countries’ biodiversity and long-term prosperity, Indigenous academics…
Researchers Abuzz About High Levels of Antibacterial Activity in Australian Honey
Australia has at least seven Leptospermum species that produce honey with exceptionally high levels of antibacterial activity. Australian honey is abuzz with high-value antibacterial activity,…
Researchers Warn: Extraordinarily Warm Temperatures Above Antarctica Cause Hot and Dry Extremes in Australia
An multinational research including Monash scientists has cautioned that changes in springtime winds high above the South Pole are likely to cause higher than average…
“A Strange Sight to Behold” – Giant Kangaroo Had Crushing Bites
A new study by a University of Arkansas anthropologist suggests feeding habits of an extinct kangaroo species were similar to the modern-day giant panda. An…
Australia’s Role in Sea Level Drop in 2010 – 2011
A newly published study details how three atmospheric patterns came together in 2010 and 2011, driving so much precipitation over Australia that the world’s ocean…
