Perhaps it was the fear of the 5am alarm or the prospect of puffing up 500 steep stone steps before breakfast, but of our APT Tour group of 18 there are just three takers for our 6km hike in Watarrka ...

The first time you drive into the Australian Outback, it’s hard to grasp the scale of it. The road stretches endlessly ahead.

Raymond Island is slightly off the beaten path, and has no hotels, shops, or restaurants—but this biodiverse wonderland has become a wildlife lovers’ dream.

Australian rodeos are caught in a high-stakes hustle to keep the outback alive in a country that some argue is outgrowing the buck.

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

People say the Australian outback isn't that dangerous if you stay on the roads and drink plenty of water. And sure, millions ...

Anna Creek Station is famous because its immense scale requires cattle mustering to be done very differently from typical ranches. In reporting on the station’s scale and role in South Australia’s ...

When the results from skin tests came back, they revealed snake fungal disease, caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, an ...

Together, we bounce past the dingo fence outside town and cross into the Never Never. Roadside spinifex and saltbush bloom a surprisingly lush green after recent rainfall. Stray kangaroos skip out of ...

Stephanie Kirsop didn't believe her son when he phoned to say a crocodile was lurking in a creek near their home.