Nature & Wildlife
Lindblad Expeditions adds four Antarctic departures for 2022/23 season
Join Lindblad Expeditions on a once in a lifetime journey to the frozen reaches of Antarctica.
Nature & Wildlife
State of the Environment report shows ‘shocking’ decline of Australia’s wildlife and natural ecosystems
Australia’s environment is sick and getting sicker as the combined effects of climate change, pollution, land clearing and mining take a dangerous toll, a landmark report says.
Biodiversity
Unbearable loss: Our koalas are endangered
Thousands of koalas were killed in the 2019/20 bushfire emergency, but keeping the species from extinction is more than just a numbers game.
Nature & Wildlife
Has Australia reached its environmental tipping point?
Early last year, a report by 38 ecologists and climate change experts warned that Australian ecosystems were already collapsing en masse and called for a radical rethink of how we approach nature conservation.
Nature & Wildlife
Pap not poop: The ‘gift’ a mother koala gives her joey
Rare footage of ‘papping’, a crucial step in a koala joey’s migration from pouch to fending for itself, has been captured on film.
Earth Heroes
What happened to this polar bear?
The Ice Bear as Sea Bear by Martin Gregus. It’s part of the exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum, where the 57th Wildlife Photographer Exhibition is currently on show.
Activity Central
Straight on the wall – posters you’ll want to keep
We ran a competition with Torren’s university and the results were incredbile. Their challenge was to make wall posters that you would want to have on your wall. It was a really hard choice but in the end we chose Danielle Leedie Gray and Damien Davis’s pieces. They were really different to one another but… View Article
Nature & Wildlife
A day in the life of Lord Howe Island in photos
Award-winning Australian landscape and wildlife photographer Justin Gilligan takes the new Samsung Galaxy for a tour of his home island.
Nature & Wildlife
Meet 5 remarkably old animals, from a Greenland shark to a featherless, seafaring cockatoo
Some animals can live to a startlingly old age, from the famous 392-year-old “Greenland shark” to a 190-year-old tortoise in the Seychelles. Two science studies published recently brings us closer to understanding why some animal species can live for so long – far longer than humans.
News
First images from James Webb Space Telescope reveal distant galaxies in mind-blowing detail
Travel back into the early Universe with these spectacular images of the deep cosmos.