A so-called “Jurassic world” has been discovered, consisting of approximately 100 ancient volcanoes, buried deep inside central Australia. The research, published in Gondwana Research, details the ...

It's often said that we know less about what is hiding in Earth's oceans than we do about what lurks in the depths of space. While that might be hyperbole, a new discovery off the coast of Australia ...

Australia's east coast is littered with the remnants of hundreds of volcanoes - the most recent just a few thousand years old - and scientists have been at a loss to explain why so many eruptions have ...

While looking for larval lobsters, an Australian research team discovered four, 50 million-year-old volcanoes, along with a scary-looking new fish species. Not only did an Australian government ...

VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA—Science Magazine reports that geologist Erin Matchan of the University of Melbourne and her colleagues have dated volcanic rocks at southeastern Australia’s Budj Bim Volcanic ...

An international team of subsurface explorers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland uncovered the previously undescribed network of volcanoes ...

Australia is a vast, remote, and mysterious land of extremes. Think of Australia, and images of its red, arid, inhospitable interior instantly spring to mind. The Australian outback, dominated by the ...

Since August a large accumulation of pumice has been drifting in the Southwest Pacific towards Australia. Researchers have now identified the origin of this pumice raft. It is a so far nameless ...

Australia’s disastrous 2019-2020 fire season blew so much smoke into the upper atmosphere that it blocked sunlight from reaching Earth’s surface, potentially causing a brief global cooling effect ...

Australia’s devastating recent wildfires thrust as much smoke into the Earth’s atmosphere as a powerful volcanic eruption, causing cooling over the region’s oceans with potentially long-lasting ...

Aid workers risk bringing in a virus Tonga has so far kept out. But there are more immediate problems, as its government confirmed in its first statement since the disaster. By Damien Cave Isabella ...