Dee Hartin from Casino, in northern NSW captured these images of thousands of bugs seeking refuge on dry land, after the area received 100mm of rain in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Marcia.
An exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney features unusual images captured with a digital radiographic machine and arranged in an evolutionary sequence. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History fish curator Sandra Raredon captured the images of thousands of fish specimens. All up, the institution, in Washington DC, has four million individual specimens representing 70 per cent of total fish diversity. The X-rays allow scientists to document internal features without ruining specimens, but they also make for unusual abstract artworks. The exhibition will be open until February 2016.
Photographer Stephen Bakalich-Murdoch explores what hides just under our view, mere inches almost, beneath the sea. In a new series, titled Ten Below, he explores the underwater world thriving just out of our sight.
Are there more sharks, or more people in the water? We ask the experts about the apparent increase in shark attacks
Western Australia’s bushfires have razed more than 85,000 hectares of the state’s south-west
A Greenpeace exhibition called Changing Climates focuses on highlighting the impact a changing climate has on people, animals, landmarks, and sustainability of the planet.
These images are part of a larger project documenting the transition of the Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve from a parched desert, at the height of the millennium drought, to a soaked oasis. The photos reveal a revival of the local flora and fauna – flooded forests, colonies of breeding waterbirds, turtles, snakes and, of course, fish.
Photographer Tom Rayner’s new book takes you on a journey through the Macquarie Marshes and their revival from years of drought, to brimming wetland oasis.
The huge bushfires around Adelaide could be seen from space
Once again bloodsucking insects are invading mattresses across Australia.