Darwin, Australia News

AIR safety authorities are investigating why two passenger aircraft were forced to change course over the Northern Territory to avoid a mid-air collision.

Two men who made funny faces from inside a baited crocodile trap while their friend stood on top of the cage were criticised for their "absolute stupidity" by authorities in the Northern Territory, Australia.

A SKELETON believed to be that of East Timor's national hero Nicolau Lobato was forgotten and gathered dust in Australia for five years.

After some unexpected setbacks, the Australian government finally has its armed reconnaissance helicopter project back on track, as Dennis Raubenheimer reports in this article from the December-January issue of Vertical Australasia.

Thunderstorms in the tropics generate widespread cirrus clouds that are important in reflecting and absorbing energy.

NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Storm Laurence on Dec.

Cyclones Ward, Mick, and Laurence making landfalls.. Current sea temperatures & cyclone activity - click here for latest positions 2009 Hurricane Season Ward, Mick, and Laurence making landfalls.. Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 14 December, 2009 : - - Lots of activitiy in the Indian Ocean at present with some substantial storms raging.

Sharpshooters are midway through a cull of the thirsty camels that took over Docker River in far-north Australia, Northern Territory officials said Saturday.

Australiaa s northwest is bracing for the first tropical cyclone of the season, which may develop today and has already forced PTT Exploration & Production Pcla s to begin evacuating workers from a well-head platform.

WUWT has another example of someone analyzing the raw temperature record verses the 'adjusted' data that comes out of the alarmists' myth generating code.

Researchers conduct fire burn-off with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory.

SINGER Jessica Mauboy didn't walk away from the ARIA Awards with the haul of trophies some expected, but it's onwards or upwards for the rising star who is getting rave reviews on her film debut.

Monday, December 07, 2009 S ome time ago, we presented the story of the American shortwave station in Australia that was established under General Douglas McArthur for communication with American units in the Pacific and in the continental United States.

The Australian government signed an agreement with Nextgen Networks to construct the new broadband backbone infrastructure under the $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program.

Recommended Reading : Larry Cosgrove: Types of Higher Latitude Blocking - an expose of how blocking patterns affect weather in the contiguous US.

Traces of the fear-filled days during the Second World War can be found in and around Darwin, a tropical city in Australia's Northern Territory.

Australia has some of the worst racial disparities in the developed world. The average household income of indigenous Australians is only 60% of the average .

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A landmark Australian project that mitigates the extent and severity of natural savannah blazes by deploying traditional Indigenous fire management techniques is being hailed as a model with vast global potential in the fights against climate change and biodiversity loss, and for protecting Indigenous lands and culture.

A community-based program aimed at reducing the burden of skin disease across remote communities in Australia's Northern Territory has been successful according to a study published November 24 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.