In the Australian outback, climate change widens the racial divide
In the scorching Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy, White people live in cool “dugouts” while their Aboriginal ...
Lost in the Desert? The “Extinct” Desert Rat-Kangaroo May Still Be Alive
New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...
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Medicines made in space set to touch down in Australian outback
Varda, a US firm planning to manufacture pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit, is expecting its second capsule to return to Earth this week ...
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Bite Mechanics Could Help Reveal If Rumors Of Rat-Kangaroo’s Death Are Exaggerated
Although declared extinct in 1994, people claim to have seen desert rat-kangaroos since, and analysis of their museum ...
MacroBusiness9d
Australia’s economy is a productivity desert
Alex Joiner, chief economist at IFM Investors, has published a series of charts illustrating the explosive growth in ...
‘Extinct’ marsupial might be alive and ‘evading detection’ in Australia, study says
A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new ...
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Desert rat-kangaroo's diet offers clues to its possible survival in remote Australia
An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...
Chasing the sunrise on Australia's outback trail
Out in the bush consisting of small-sized Mallee eucalypt shrubs, shade is a rarity. Meanwhile, the pale tufts of spinifex ...