A huge, strange scar spotted on satellite images in Australia’s Nullarbor Plain has led scientists to an unexpected discovery: a powerful tornado that no one saw happen. The event went completely ...

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Researchers have discovered how long ago the Australian Nullarbor plain dried out, with a new approach shedding light on how ancient climate change altered some of the driest regions of our planet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock The Nullarbor is one of Australia’s iconic natural places. It’s renowned as a vast and mostly treeless plain. But ...

A caver came across satellite images, that piqued the interest of Dr Matej Lipar, Adjunct Research Fellow in Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences. After researching the pictures, the doctor ...

As the Indian Pacific rumbled across Australia’s vast, seemingly lifeless Nullarbor Plain, a massive green wave erupted from the desert, waking the passengers from their ‘Nullarbor trance’. This ...

Australia's Nullarbor Plain is one of the driest landscapes in the country, but new research suggests it was once forest that received up to four times as much rain as it gets now. Rather than the ...

Environments across the planet are changing dramatically in response to human population growth and climate change. Some scientists even say human activity has pushed Earth into a new geological epoch ...