Biodiversity
Australia gives up on eradicating devastating wood-boring beetle
Authorities have ceased trying to eradicate the invasive pest that has destroyed 4500 trees in the one city where it has been detected.
Flora & Fauna
Peacock spiders: More than meets the eye
Evolution hasn’t only gifted peacock spiders with spectacular markings – these nimble arachnids are also remarkable athletes.
Flora & Fauna
Australia’s cutest mammal is now Australia’s cutest three mammals
The kultarr was thought to be a single widespread species, until now.
Climate
Bringing in the sea
Could so-called blue carbon be key to resolving some of Australia’s biggest environmental and cultural challenges?
Flora & Fauna
Orcas filmed grooming each other with seaweed in rare case of ocean mammal tool use
Australian marine scientists say new research documenting orcas using seaweed as a tool for grooming is further evidence of the species’ complex social structures.
Flora & Fauna
Tiny moth solves decades-old pollination mystery
How a ‘weird group of boronias’ pollinate has puzzled botanists for decades. Now the mystery has finally been solved.
Science & Environment
Plastic measures
Aussie researchers are at the vanguard of scientists worldwide solving the global environmental crisis created by plastic pollution.
Flora & Fauna
Boobialla and the butterfly
It has the ring of a fairytale, but an endangered butterfly’s survival in Western Victoria isn’t the stuff of magic but rather a story of dedicated habitat restoration.
Flora & Fauna
Wild cockatoos learn to drink from water fountain
Sulphur-crested cockatoos have shown extraordinary signs of brainpower in a Sydney park, where they’ve been seen turning on water taps, and even queuing to take turns drinking.
Science & Environment
Chytrid fungus prompts mating surge
The rare alpine tree frog is fighting against the lethal fungus by breeding faster.