A 26-year study at the Arid Recovery Reserve reveals how removing invasive predators like cats and foxes triggers a dramatic ...

In the heart of Australia’s outback, a vanishing world has been created that only springs to life at night. Behind towering ...

For years it’s been a barren salt flat. But now, due to floods hundreds of miles away, Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre ...

In the driest region of the world’s driest inhabited continent, a vast inland lake that is typically dry is slowly filling ...

“We call them ecosystem engineers,” Pedler says. Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $19.99 This article is a selection from the July/August 2023 issue of Smithsonian magazine ...

Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists. ... the desert ecosystem will be feeling the explosive extremes of its boom-and-bust cycle.

CNN By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center ...