Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre: Interpretations from the air is the first in a series of publications by The Light Collective – a team of Australia’s finest visual artists – which aims to explore modern and progressive interpretations of the Australia’s unique and arresting wild places. The collection opens for exhibition from 3-12 November, 11am-6pm, at The Depot Gallery, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo. NSW.
These historic Australian postcards dating back to the 1880s provide a nostalgic glimpse to our nation’s past.
Climate change gets a lot of the spotlight when it comes to saving wildlife. But bigger threats remain.
This year, the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney marks its 200th anniversary with the launch of Florilegium – an ambitious painted record of its living plant collections. Read more about the Florilegium project in the latest issue of Australian Geographic (AG#134).
New research suggests that a storm on Jupiter may be helping heat the planet to degrees upwards of 500ºC.
How did the Aussie swimming coach and all-around sports legend Forbes Carlile get his athletes across line faster than anyone else and help break 31 world records? This is how.
Farewell to an icon of an era and the very first World Surfing Champion, Midget Farrelly.
A celebration of elephants for World Elephant Day, seen through the lens of acclaimed Australian photographer Bobby-Jo Clow. Elephants are enormous, unmistakable — and irreplaceable. No other creature has such a long-shared history with humanity while remaining largely undomesticated. But today, despite 4000 years of coexistence, we seem determined to destroy them. It’s estimated that a wild elephant is lost to the world every 15 minutes. From the rusty, red plains of Tsavo to the lush, green forests of northern Thailand, Bobby-Jo has captured every aspect of elephant life — from first step to untimely death — in her book Reflections of Elephants. Her astonishing images have been paired with the words of writers, poets, scientists, conservationists, students and everyday people, to produce unique reflections of this most iconic animal.
Do you like pâté? You might want to try baking or roasting the golden orb-weaving spider.
Koala numbers in parts of Australia are in decline as they move from development of their land. But they can learn to take safer routes if they are built as part of the urban design.