A seaman who fell off a cargo ship survived almost 20 hours at sea before being rescued off Australia’s southeastern coast on ...

These animals are at risk of extinction in areas such as New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory, due to disease, drought, bushfires, and land clearing. Their numbers in South ...

Visitors to Australia’s Geelong Botanic Gardens got a big whiff of a vile stench over the past couple days, all stemming from ...

“Cave crickets are a globally-distributed group of insects found in cool, dark habitats of high relative humidity,” ...

Indigenous land management in southeastern Australia halved forest shrub cover 6,000 years ago, reducing high-intensity ...

A Brisbane concert was thrown into chaos after a wild storm erupted, forcing thousands of concertgoers to evacuate the venue ...

A 30-year-old sailor fell overboard from the cargo ship "Double Delight," sailing under the Singapore flag, and spent 20 ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen ...

Ancient cultural burning practices carried out by Indigenous Australians limited fuel availability and prevented high intensity fires in southeastern Australia for thousands of years, according to new ...

Britannia Creek Cave is in southeastern Australia. The research team includes S. Iannello and P. G. Beasley-Hall. Irene Wright is a McClatchy Real-Time reporter. She earned a B.A. in ecology and ...