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

Sturt's desert pea are often the most popular sight for keen outback flower spotters. Presenting in different colours, South Australia’s floral emblem occurs in all mainland states except for ...

AUSTRALIA’S Outback is getting hotter. Deadlier. Deader. A global study has revealed longer and more intense heatwaves are rapidly pushing our plants and crops towards breaking point.

Between 1982 and 2010, leaf cover on plants rose by 11 percent in arid areas, including the southwestern United States, Australia's Outback, the Middle East and some parts of Africa, the study found.