This northern part of Australia is sparsely populated but rich in national park and conservation land.
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Water in Australia's salt lakes can be fleeting, but provides vital wetland habitat for plants and animals.
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Fire managers warned of “the most dangerous bushfire week this nation has ever seen.”
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This vegetation map reveals that plants in southeastern Australia’s Wheatbelt were flourishing under abundant spring rains.
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Bushfire counts dipped in mid-January when much-needed rainfall poured down on New South Wales and Victoria.
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A season of extremes in eastern Australia took another dramatic turn in mid-February 2020.
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Floods
This vegetation image from March 2010 shows lush vegetation growing in Australia’s interior, where developing swarms of locusts had been spotted.
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This rainfall map shows the concentrated area of intense rain that led to devastating flash flooding in Queensland, Australia, on January 10, 2011.
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Fires
Tropical Cyclone Billy continued traveling along Western Australia's Kimberley Coast .
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After two years of severe drought, abundant rain finally fell over the Australian state and turned the landscape green.
Several years of dry conditions have set the stage for a fierce fire season in several southeastern states.
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When the rainstorm ended in southeast Australia, a brown plume emerged from the Brisbane River.
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