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Mamu Tropical Skywalk offers a bird’s-eye view of croc-infested waters and rainforest 80 million years older than the Amazon.

Get a bird’s-eye view of croc-infested waters and rainforest 80 million years older than the Amazon.

There's more to Australia than cafe hopping, surfing, and chilling by the beach. Spice up your trip with these 10 crazy outdoor activities.

The tooth-billed bowerbird gave itself away with a not-quite-right call. Suspicious, I’d panned my binoculars toward the sound and there he was, the mimic, high in the canopy of a rainforest tree. It was a satisfying sight. Like many of Australia’s wet tropics-endemic species, tooth-billed bowerbird populations have declined rapidly in recent years, their climate […]

Abstract We report a comprehensive inventory of Be-based basin-wide denudation rates (n = 160) and Al/ Be ratios (n = 67) from 48 drainage basins along a 3000 km stretch of the East Australian passive continental margin. We provide data from both basins draining east of the continental divide (n = 37) and discharging into the Tasman and Coral Seas, and from basins draining to the west as part of the larger Murray-Darling and Lake Eyre river systems (n = 11). Be-derived denudation rates in mainstem samples from east-draining basins range between 7.7 ± 1.9 (± 1σ; Mary) and 54.6 ± 13.7 mm...