{
  "id": 16334270,
  "title": "Outback kaleidoscope: Australia’s fabled desert lake bursts to life in rare sight",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/outback-kaleidoscope-australias-fabled-desert-lake-bursts-to-life-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-24T14:00:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/25/kati-thanda-lake-eyre-transformed-green-rainfall"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A prodigiously wet monsoon season has brought damaging floods to parts of Australia, but transformed Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in a way not seen in decades The Australian desert is green. Not just green – depending on where you look from above, it could also be a marbled reddy-pink and blue or yellow-brown with flecks of purple. But green is the most striking colour because the desert is not supposed…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}