Climate
Scientists need your help to complete Australia’s longest daily weather record
Climate scientists are calling on the public to help transcribe important weather observations from 170 years ago.
Category: News
Nature & Wildlife
COVID-19 puts new zing in Aussie lingo
Frugalistas, fomites and fakeaway dinners … wordsmiths are having a field day. Lexicologist Dr Adam Smith looks at the colourful, inventive language of social crisis.
Nature & Wildlife
What’s your favourite nature book?
The Wilderness Society launches Nature Book Week on Threatened Species Day, 7 September. Join Professor Tim Flannery and Rove McManus as they chat about Australia’s incredible native wildlife.
Nature & Wildlife
Everything you ever wanted to know about snails (on Lord Howe Island)
Scaling mountains, leaping out of boats, winching out of helicopters… meet the researchers doing it all for endemic snails!
Adventure
New Land Rover Defender: Eight reasons it’s the ultimate adventurer
The original Land Rover Defender was an adventure and exploration icon. Does the all-new Defender live up to that legend? We find out.
Australian Geographic Adventure
Father’s Day adventures and gift ideas
It’s Father’s Day – a time to spoil all Aussie dads – so here are some cracking outdoor escapes and cool gear gift ideas that will be ideal for the active ‘Old Man’!
Nature & Wildlife
Exquisite, year-round bird art is all yours
Work of art: the Australian Geographic 2021 Art Calendar is out now and selling fast. Don’t miss out!
History & Culture
The Tasmanian tiger was hunted to extinction as a ‘large predator’ – but it was only half as heavy as we thought
Here’s what we got wrong about the thylacine.
Nature & Wildlife
Highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau best place to view stars
A chilly, but superb place to observe stars.
Adventure
Western Faces: The film that reveals Australia’s epic backcountry skiing
Australian mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape, free-skier Anna Segal and Freeride World Tour rookie Michaela Davis-Meehan, are set to explore some of the steepest faces in their backyard inthe film, Western Faces. With New Zealand free-skiers Fraser McDougall and Hank Bilous along for the ride, they’re slogging deep into the Snowy Mountains backcountry to find free-ride terrain that will have their Kiwi counterparts doing a double-take.