A lone desert tree stands surrounded by a flat, dry expanse of dusty soil and blood red rocks, an environment that is at once barren and isolated, yet home to an amazing number of feisty plants and animals. This is the Outback of Australia, rough around the edges, wild and scorching. Its very idea challenges all who set foot Down Under to explore it, breathe it, get under its skin. (continue...)
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, and rightly so. With an expansive ecosystem of about 3,000 individual reefs and hundreds of coral species, it is an underwater world brimming with life and color. In a constant state of evolution for more than 25 million years, this ecological marvel is (continue...)
