A new study of water quality in Australian rivers reveals surprising changes since the turn of the century: good for the ...

On January 25, 2025, Anthony Albanese was in Western Australia where he sedulously followed the great ... proudly admitting that they are conducting business on Indigenous land, and honouring past, ...

Victorians are being warned to brace for a longer than usual bushfire season with no significant rain forecast for the rest of the month.

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Egypt, Jordan and Arab nations in the Persian Gulf were quick to respond, reiterating their opposition to the mass ...

Despite a great efflorescence of literature and especially film about the mafia, it’s a truism to say that it isn’t very good for Sicily. It also hasn’t been very good when exported to other countries ...

The architect pitching for a timber venue across the road from the existing stadium says it’s an Olympic solution that’s been “hiding in plain sight”.

The United States government's decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

A, the world’s oldest and largest (about the size of Rhode Island), may hit South Georgia Island, home to vulnerable penguins and seabirds.

Tech stocks worldwide plunged after the launch of DeepSeek last month - apparently costing a fraction of rival AI models and requiring less sophisticated chips - raised questions over the West's huge ...

The year with the highest average sea surface temperature on record was 2022, which was associated with a strong negative Indian Ocean Dipole event and mass coral bleaching ... Indian Ocean region to ...