Glide over the extraordinary landscapes of Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, where the massive sandstone domes of ...

By Mike DiGirolamo This week on the Mongabay Newscast, Samantha Murray, CEO of the Indigenous Desert Alliance, joins the ...

The Simpson Desert stretches 68,000 miles across central Australia, but it looks as surreal as anything on Mars. There are more than 1,100 parallel sand dunes, each a wind-sculpted ridge of quartz ...

A tribute to William F. Humphreys, the Australian museum scientist whose four decades of research revealed ancient ...

You might think of Australia's arid center as a dry desert landscape devoid of aquatic life. But it's actually dotted with thousands of rock holes—natural rainwater reservoirs that act as little oases ...

A spectacular wildflower bloom has transformed parts of Western Australia's normally arid landscape following months of unusually wet weather.

Some Australian desert mammals use distinct strategies to promote evolutionary fitness in response to changing environmental conditions over short timescales, according to a new study. Populations of ...

July 16 (UPI) --For 22 years, scientists studied ant populations in the Simpson Desert in northern Australia. Their findings suggest the ant species in the region are surprisingly resilient, capable ...

Three years into its local production effort in Australia and New Zealand, Netflix has greenlighted two new series, one feature film and one full-length documentary from Australia. These are in ...