Just when you thought Australia’s animals couldn’t get any weirder comes the astounding revelation that the ancestors of the platypus and echidnas evolved in Antarctica.
Record-breaking heatwaves hit both Antarctica and the Arctic simultaneously this week, with temperatures reaching 47℃ and 30℃ higher than normal. What on Earth is going on?
In a huge milestone, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has finally been aligned to produce the first unified image of a single star.
Since its grand debut 90 years ago, Sydney’s now world-famous harbour crossing has hosted creatures great and small.
This 2000-year-old stand of Huon pines discovered in the takayna-Tarkine wilderness, north-west Tasmania, must be protected.
We document the impact of the recent floods on animals.
The wreck of the Endurance, the long-lost ship of early 20th century polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, has been discovered 3km beneath the Weddell Sea, 107 years after it was crushed by sea ice and sank.
On International Women’s Day 2022 we celebrate 18 women who have made incredible contributions to environmental and climate science as well as our understanding of the need for action.
It’s raining cats and dogs, over and over and over again. So where is all the water coming from?
News photographer and local Brendan Beirne continues to document the crisis in Far Northern NSW. This is his take on the flood that has brought his town to its knees. And yet, despite the darkest of clouds, there is a ray of sunshine: a community that has pulled together, again, to weather the storm.