Here are some of the highlights. March and September: eclipses of the Moon. During the early morning of Monday 8 September, the full Moon will move into the shadow of Earth and be totally eclipsed.The Moon will turn a red or coppery colour, because sunlight is bent or refracted by Earth’s atmosphere onto the Moon.

The Australian Geographic Awards for Nature is the Society’s flagship conservation funding program. These competitive grants are run annually and each of the grants, known as awards, are worth either $20,000, $30,000 or $50,000 each.

Australian Geographic acknowledges the First Nations people of Australia as traditional custodians, and pay our respects to Elders past and present, and their stories and journeys that have lead us to where we are today.

2024年1月23日 · Why are sea levels rising? Global sea levels are rising for two main reasons: the oceans are getting warmer, and land-based ice sheets and glaciers are melting.. As ocean water warms, it expands. Because the ocean basins are finite (like a …

2024年1月16日 · “When I opened the window, the rain just poured in, and I shone the spotlight around at the end of the [torch] beam. Sure enough, it was a thylacine, right in front of the car, ” Hans told The Mercury newspaper, many years later.. Hans’s camera was out of reach, so he instead focused his efforts – and channelled his many years of experience observing wildlife in …

2013年3月28日 · Tracking down the world’s most venomous snake, the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), took the crew to a remote desert in south-western Queensland. “The inland taipan is unbelievably elusive,” he says. The remote location is one reason there have been no recorded deaths by this species, even though one bite contains enough venom to kill several …

Painful examples of medical mistreatment remain fresh in the hearts of many Indigenous communities. Before beginning its study, the NCIG team was given access to a historical collection of 7000 genetic samples collected from 35 different Indigenous communities throughout the 1960s and ’70s.

2010年6月18日 · 1. Black box flight recorder A Flight Data Recorder (FDR). Image credit: Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The black box flight recorder has helped make commercial air travel the world’s safest form of travel.

2024年8月26日 · Records broken across Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology was expecting many records to be broken over the weekend across several states. On Thursday, bureau meteorologist Angus Hines described “A scorching end to winter, with widespread heat around the country in coming days, including the chance of winter records across multiple states for …

2024年9月20日 · Early responses to the Aussie flag were mixed. In its issue of 28 September 1901, The Bulletin magazine described the winning design in Australia’s national flag competition as “vulgar and ill-fitting”, proclaiming it to be a “staled réchauffé of the British flag, with no artistic virtue, no national significance”.It added that “Minds move slowly: and Australia is still Britain ...