Unprecedented bushfires raging in eastern Australia have killed at least four people and devastated wildlife in the region, killing hundreds of koalas and burning through their colonies so badly ...

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The submerged colony's existence came to light as researchers meticulously explored the underwater realm, which had once been a thriving ecosystem on a landmass nearly 250,000 square miles in size ...

Australian bushfire threatens koala colony after half wiped out. At least 350 dead out of 500 to 600, reports say. Melanie Burton. Friday 08 November 2019 13:48 GMT. Comments. open image in gallery.

It was an Australian colony, in one form or another, from 1919 until it was granted formal independence in 1975. Politically and economically, however, it has remained under the sway of Australian ...

The Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis, is a threatened coastal seabird that breeds in colonies on wide-open beaches.Their nests are simple, consisting of a scrape in the sand where ...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology Monday for his country's role in ... Britain dispatched more than 150,000 children, involuntarily, to the colonies. In Australia, ...

The latest work on Australia, Mr. Walker’s Australasian Democracy, gives as an illustration of this transientness of everything the fact that the three colonies of New South Wales, South ...

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