Endangered western quolls, bilbies and golden bandicoots are reclaiming the central Australian desert, fighting back against ...

How are desert lizards impacted by increased temperatures resulting from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Under the cover of darkness, a “robust” creature with a unique spot pattern took up its rocky perch in a desert of Australia. Its “large” eyes scanned the sparse landscape. Passing scientists noticed ...

It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, ...

Where the dingo fence divides three states, the sun is harsh and wild dust storms are just a gust away, hundreds of new residents are settling into the desert. But it's not people who have recently ...

But ask the people who lived in this desert for 48,000 years what happened and many will tell you: They left. “A lot of Martu people say that if there’s no people out in the country, then all the ...

These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from inundating Australia’s fragile ecosystems—one camel burger at a time. Weighing ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Scientists found a “robust” creature with porthole-like spots in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Peter McDonald via McDonald, Fenner, Torkkola and Oliver ...