Australian researchers attached ‘backpacks’ with tiny sensors on nomadic Australian waterbirds birds to discover the extraordinary ways they migrate to find water.
New research has revealed a surprising trick in which birds use those boring black and white feathers to make their colours even more vivid.
These dogs have learned new tricks to help researchers search for platypuses in hard-to-reach places.
A scheme bringing solar electricity to remote communities promises to improve the lives of some of Australia’s most disadvantaged people.
Footage has provided Sydney researchers with the first evidence of a native rakali attacking a black rat – an introduced and problematic species.
Why has an unprecedented growth of tiny toxic plants been killing marine life en masse along Australia’s southern coastline?
For most people, a haircut is a regular routine in which little thought is given to the tresses that fall to the floor. But these discarded locks can help save our environment.
Hold up, humans. Ants figured out medicine, farming and engineering long before we did.
After more than a century of mining coal to produce steel, the port city of Wollongong is reshaping itself as a clean-energy hub.
This Aussie actor has turned her back on a successful Hollywood career to work with her new extended neighbourhood south of Sydney on creating a sustainable future.