New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have ...

Australia’s fire preparedness just got smarter, more colourful and easier to access.

As Australia faces longer, more erratic fire seasons, tools like this may prove essential for staying one step ahead of the ...

Google has added fresh high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery to its mapping services for 25 cities and 72 countries. Among the imagery to get an update is the Olympic Park, London, where ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

If you look at satellite images of the world over just the last five years, some of the changes are striking: Massive swaths of forest burned in Australia, Russia, and California. In Egypt, urban ...

South Pacific island has mistakenly appeared in publications for past century. Nov. 23, 2012— -- Sandy Island was nowhere to be found when Australian scientists reached the South Pacific location ...

This is pretty interesting. I read about this at Ionut Alex. Chitu’s blog. In honor of the celebration of the national holiday Australia Day 2007 on January 26, Google has announced it will be taking ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...