And the Red Centre is sometimes greener in the Australian winter than expected. Sturt's Desert Roses bloom purple, Umbrella Wattles bear tiny yellow flower balls.

For years it’s been a barren salt flat. But now, due to floods hundreds of miles away, Australia’s Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre appears set to fill for only the fourth time in 160 years.

Scientists found a “robust” creature with porthole-like spots in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Peter McDonald via McDonald, Fenner, Torkkola and ...

Scientists found a “robust” creature with an “ambush predation” style in a desert of Australia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Peter McDonald via McDonald, Fenner ...

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Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

Credit: Adrian Beckett, Indigenous Desert Alliance Four Indigenous rangers are in France to put the Australian desert on the map at the World Ranger Congress.