When most people picture Australian beaches, they imagine sun-drenched sand and warm tropical waters perfect for year-round swimming. That’s certainly true for Queensland and northern New South Wales, ...

Manly, Dee Why, Long Reef, Queenscliff, Freshwater, North and South Curl Curl, North Steyne and North Narrabeen beaches were closed on Tuesday in the northern Sydney area Izhar Khan/Getty Mysterious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Esperance inlet, Lucky Bay, has blinding white sands and a whole palette of turquoise waters (Getty Images) Balmy breezes, ...

The sand on Whitehaven Beach in Queensland, Australia, is remarkably white and never too hot to walk across. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight years of experience editing and writing for ...

You might know the short-tailed shearwater and sable shearwater by the common name “muttonbirds”. These two species of seabird breed on islands off southeastern Australia. Both undertake a ...

Plastic pollution along selected Australian coastlines has dropped by 39 percent over a decade, according to research by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. That finding was included in a ...