Red sand blasted my neck and face as winds relentlessly swirled across Australia’s Outback. Sitting atop a small, rocky outcropping, I pressed the binocular into my eye sockets to block the stinging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A screenshot from an ABC television video shows Carolina Wilga (R) boarding a plane. A German backpacker who had been missing for ...

People say the Australian outback isn't that dangerous if you stay on the roads and drink plenty of water. And sure, millions of visitors pass through every year without incident. But the outback has ...

In an era defined by efficiency, the concept of slow travel can feel perplexing. Modern airports prioritize speed. As the world floats by 40,000 feet below, there is no appreciation of the small, ...

(CNN) — It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland ...

Tyres stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warramunga facility, about 500 kilometres north – a ...