Since last summer’s bushfire crisis in Australia, there’s been a quantum shift in public awareness of Aboriginal fire management. It’s now more widely understood that Indigenous people used landscape burning to sustain biodiversity and suppress large bushfires.
Frustrated with their country's inability to control introduced species, some Australian researchers are proposing to enlist two native predators to the country's landscape.
Saroo Brierly was separated from his family when he was just 5 years old. He'd gotten on a train, fallen asleep and woken up in Calcutta, far away from his hometown -- a home he didn't even know the name of. He was eventually adopted by an Australian couple but recently used Google Earth to research where he might be from. He reunited with his mom 25 years after being separated from her.
An Indian man who lost his mother when he was only five has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania, using satellite images. The World's Aaron Schachter explains.
As Australia battles wildfires that feed on a non-native hardy grass in the Northern Territory, one scientist says the answer is to import elephants and rhinoceroses to eat the gamba grass.
We are looking for a vast, but sparsely-populated territory of Australia. It borders the Timor Sea to the north and to the south it abuts South Australia.
We are looking for the historic port city of Tasmania where the yachts are heading from Sydney.
A war of words over logging in Australia has ignited between a large Malaysian logging company and environmentalists, and it's captured the Olympics in London as well.
About 70 percent of Australian adults gamble. Some say gambling Down Under has gotten out of hand. It's a contentious issue, one that could potentially topple a government. The World's Jason Margolis has more.
For today's Geo Quiz we were looking for Australia's southern-most state where today Australia Day celebrations kicked off with great food and traditional games. The answer is Tasmania. Producer Jake Warga sends an Australia Day audio postcard.
Scientist Martin Riddle talks to Faith about his recent discovery of several new kinds of giant deep sea creatures on the ocean floor off Antarctica.