Darwin, Australia News

Bob Tisdale has a detailed post on the new 2014 paper entitled "The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate" by Chylek et al. Nic Lewis also did a good analysis of the paper, see the Notes below for the links.

BHP Billiton boss Andrew Mackenzie believes over 70% of the world's energy will still come from fossil fuels by 2030.

Brett Cowan is unmasked as a serial child sex offender who fathered three children of his own before being found guilty of the murder of Daniel Morcombe.

NASA's Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Gillian moving through Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria on March 13 at 4:25 UTC/12:45 a.m. EDT.... Ex-Tropical Cyclone Gillian weakened to a remnant low pressure area after making landfall in the Western Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia then returned into the Gulf ... (more)

Australia has invited the UK to utilise its Defence facilities in Darwin much like the US is doing, as the allies increasingly focus on the Asia Pacific region.

AS THE FBI joins the search for answers to what downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, security experts say China may have been the target.

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed that Australia is sending two P3C Orions from Darwin to Malaysia to aid with the search for the missing flight MH370.

Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command has initiated a rotational deployment to Guam that will see Marine operators training with Navy SEALs on a regular basis.

BRUCE Wallder the great dane may well be the first dog in history to receive a cheque in the mail as consolation for having his testicles removed.

The royals are heading to the NT, but Darwin's Prince George the baby saltwater crocodile seems unlikely to meet his namesake.

Soldiers marched, children cheered and there was a truce in a nasty political spat when Diggers who served in Afghanistan were honoured in a welcome home parade in Darwin on Saturday.

It's 10 years since The Ghan made its maiden trip across Australia. A decade on, Richard Jones finds that the iconic train is still very much on track.

WHEN it comes to Australia's war artists, William Edwin Pidgeon isn't the best known or probably even among the best.

ANALYSIS: TRAVELLERS may be the only winners from the high stakes battle for market share being waged by Australia's two airline chiefs.

NEW TWIST: The removal of Bowen's monster mango was a stunt dreamt up and executed by a fastfood company.

Rosebery tradie Gary Brook is one of the many blue collar workers who have moved to Palmerston.

PALMERSTON properties have crashed through the $1 million mark as the demand for upper-end houses in the Top End soars.

Two Wisconsin cousins, Corporal Englund Johnson, bomber waist gunner, of Park Falls and Sergeant Donald Englund, airplane engine mechanic, of Prentice, are posed shirtless in front of a painted sign at the Kiriwina Airfield on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea .

St Bigid's College students Claire Burke and Liam Atherton lay a wreath at Darwin Defenders service at Horsham College.

A witness to the violence at the Manus Island detention centre on Monday night says guards attacked asylum seekers with sticks and iron bars.