An Icy Expanse The Antarctic Desert may come as a surprise to many as it doesn't fit our conventional idea of sand and heat.

Firefighters were desperately trying to stop a cluster of fast-moving blazes in southeast Australia on Tuesday, as thousands of acres of national park burned and a farming community was forced to ...

as well as the Kimberley in Western Australia, with two significant low pressure systems either side of the country. In the meantime, hot desert winds will see a second round of heatwave ...

Residents in Victoria's far west are being told to evacuate immediately as an out-of-control fire burns in the Little Desert. The communities of Dimboola, Pimpinio and Wail near the Victoria-South ...

It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world's already hot deserts. But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and ...

The weather agency's senior forecaster Dean Narramore told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the slow-moving cyclone was pushing hot and windy air from the Central Desert into western ...