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Vale Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer

Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall, who survived the Death Zone of Mt Everest, has died.

Remote Limmen NP, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, has stunning sandstone formations, rare species and wild river systems.

A new type of galaxy that resembles an emerald-cut diamond has been discovered by astronomers.

A TV report showing turtles and dugongs hunted in the Torres Strait has been criticised as unbalanced and emotive.

Australians have developed a low-cost solar light to help people in natural disasters like the Pakistan floods.

A new study of previously unearthed human fossils suggests the ‘red-deer’ people of China were a separate species.

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A new three-part documentary series reveals previously unfilmed scenes of the world’s biggest coral reef.

Whale sharks mostly inhabit the tropics, but a rare sighting in the Southern Ocean suggests a change in behaviour.

Phar Lap’s skeleton has been remounted in a new more accurate way and put on display in New Zealand.

Gannets risk their lives to dive at break-neck speeds into water to catch fish, new research shows.