For the third time since the start of Australia's fire season, a state of emergency has been declared in the Australian state of New South Wales due to fires that are burning out of control. The ...

Australia is in the midst of a massive brush fire season, with fires covering a much larger area than even California’s most devastating wildfires. To help visualize the size and scale of the fire ...

Australia's vast reserves of rare earth elements and critical minerals give the country a potential bargaining chip as it attempts to secure an exemption from U.S. President Donald Trump's latest ...

Marta Yebra is a member of the ACT Multi Hazards Advisory Council and The International Academy of Astronautics. This year’s fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week brings torrential ...

A crumbling 17th century map of Australia—sketched more than 100 years before James Cook made his famed voyage to the continent—has been restored after a painstaking conservation project. And as Karen ...

And when the first hunter-gatherers crossed the narrow strait from East Timor – then at the tip of a much larger Southeast Asian landmass – they found a land unlike any other they had previously ...

Starting today, the Apple Maps app on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac now displays Indigenous lands in Australia and New Zealand, such as reserves and protected areas. In a press release, Apple said the ...

Rick McRae was a senior emergency manager in the ACT for over three decades, and has now retired. He is now a Visiting Fellow at UNSW Canberra. The bushfire outlook for many parts of Australia has ...