Australia sits on a fast-moving tectonic plate and is drifting north several inches a year. As its GPS coordinates haven't been updated since 1994, the discrepancy has grown to six feet and has begun causing trouble. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the continent's location is being fixed. On January 1, the Victorian and NSW ... The massive scale and force of the ongoing bushfires in Australia is hard to comprehend. The number of living creatures killed by flame, smoke, and habitat destruction fires is already staggering, and incomplete. Here is a new video from Reuters with more on a story we've covered here at Boing Boing previously -- ...
The New South Wales Government is dropping thousands of pounds of carrots and sweet potato from helicopters to feed the endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies that are starving as a result of the massive bushfires across Australia. From the NSW Government:
(According to Environment Minister Matt Kean,) "Initial fire assessments indicate the habitat of several important Brush-tailed ... I've always understood Australia to be a nightmare hellscape full of crazy killer creatures. But that's only because I hadn't heard about the quokka. This teddy bear-sized marsupial lives on the islands off the mainland of Australia, and they're just — I mean — look at this thing! Mother Nature made Australia into ... Dozens are likely dead in Australia, which is beset by uncontrolled wildfires. Experts believe a third of the koala population on the continent's east coast is already wiped out, and there's no end in sight. Residents are fleeing to the beaches to escape the flames. In the video embedded here from New ... 104º F/40.9º C average across country ... Well, there it is at last, the silver lining to climate change. Turns out it's so hot in Australia, you can totally roast a delicious hunk of meat on top of your car.
In Australia, a guy roasted some tasty pork on the roof of his Datsun on a scorching hot day. The not funny part ...
Just look at them. (Thanks, Marion!)
My son’s teacher has banned me from decorating my son’s bananas as they were causing too much of a ruckus in class & honestly... knowing my art caused a class of 6yos to riot is probably one of the best compliments I’ve ever recieved. I wish ...
This is Men at Work's "Down Under" as it was originally released in 1980 as the B-side to the band's self-released "Keypunch Operator" 7". A year later, the band re-recorded it for their Columbia Records debut Business As Usual. The track flew up the Australian charts and hit number one in the US a few ...
An Australian woman's creepy, violent ex-boyfriend hacked her phone using stalkerware, then used that, along with her car's VIN number, to hack the remote control app for her car (possibly Landrover's Incontrol app), which allowed him to track her location, stop and start her car, and adjust the car's temperature.
It's a great leap forward ...
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Australia’s location corrected
Australia fires: Air-dropping veggies to feed wallabies [NEW VIDEO]
Australia fires: Carrots and sweet potatoes dropped from the air to feed starving animals
Australia is only a horrifying natural death trap so it can balance out the adorableness of the quokka
Footage of Australian fire crew overwhelmed by flames
Australia just had hottest day in recorded history
Gentleman roasts pork on car during Australia heat crisis
Just look at these decorated ruckus-causing lunchtime bananas
Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under”
A woman’s stalker compromised her car’s app, giving him the ability to track and immobilize it