As outback Queensland floods, animated satellite imagery shows the floodwaters gushing towards Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in South Australia.

The night-time ascent is the final highlight of this very Australian pilgrimage, the 230-kilometre Larapinta Trail from the desert city ... considered to be one of Australia's most scenic hiking ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.