Tiny extremophiles give the salty lakes their rosy hue, but over-mining and climate change are threatening their existence.

Australia is home to some of the world's most unique natural wonders, and among them are its mesmerizing pink lakes. But what ...

In Australia, several natural-forming, brightly pink-hued lakes attract tourists from around the world every year hoping to take a peek at their out-of-this-world coloration.

Brown hills speckle the eastern part of Australia’s Lake MacKay in this satellite image. Located on the border of the states of Western Australia and Northern Territory, the salt lake only sees ...

Phil Hart works every summer in the Gippsland Lakes area of Australia, and three years ago he observed a bizarre, blue glow in the lakes at night – but only when the water was disturbed. He took ...

On maps of Australia, the great inland salt lakes are often shaded in blue. The colour suggests the presence of water, which can be misleading, especially for the biggest of those lakes.

A state government in Australia plans on pumping oxygen into rivers and lakes in response to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of fish.

Perth-based photographer Leah Kennedy captures the duality of Australia's salinization crisis in a series of extraordinary images.

In 1968, this 925-square-mile parcel was put on the map when geomorphologist Jim Bowler came upon the cremated remains of a woman, now known as Mungo Lady. Five years later, Bowler discovered the ...

Learn more about the history of trading water in Australia’s three markets in this infographic. Australia boasts the world’s only large-scale system of water-rights trading, concentrated into three ...

Australia is home to hundreds of lakes that turn the colour of pink bubble gum or cordial, but what do we really know about the cause of their colour?

Australia’s biggest lake is believed to have reached capacity on only three occasions in the past 160 years, but the mass of floodwater now flowing into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is raising more ...