Climate
State of the Climate 2024: How is Australia faring?
Australia is enduring harsher fire seasons, more ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise.
News
How darkling beetles rose to ‘global ecological dominance’
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and CSIRO have used genomic analysis to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of more than 300 darkling beetle species.
News
Engineering bioplastics for the future
CSIRO has partnered with Murdoch University to launch the Bioplastics Innovation Hub (BIH), to help fast-track the development of biologically derived, compostable plastics.
News
Island life is more unique than you ever realised, and it needs protecting
More than 20 per cent of plant species are found only on islands – and time is running out to save them.
Nature & Wildlife
Dingo descendants unveiled
For the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo, and dogs from East Asia and New Guinea have been discovered.
News
One million trees planted, eight million to go
The Foundation of National Parks & Wildlife – the philanthropic partner of Australia’s National Parks – yesterday planted the millionth tree of the Landscape Resilience Program.
Nature & Wildlife
March of the mud crabs
Researchers suspect that elderly female mud crabs make a lengthy one-way journey to spread their final spawn.
News
NASA launches Europa Clipper into space in search for signs of life on Jupiter’s moon
Australia woke to news this morning that NASA’s latest spacecraft launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center was a huge success. Our own Karina Holden was there for lift off!
History & Culture
A telescope for a Golden Age
After a stellar 50 years as one of the country’s major scientific assets, the Anglo-Australian Telescope continues to play a major role in keeping Australian astronomy on the world stage.
Climate
Sharks filmed ‘smashing’ sea urchins
What started as a study to better understand how lobsters prey on sea urchins instead discovered sharks also predate on the pest.