Science & Environment
Factsheet: Gympie-Gympie
Find out all you need to know about the Gympie-Gympie stinging tree.
Photography
Gallery: Top rock shots: Geoscience Australia photo contest
Each year Geoscience Australia, our geological advisory agency, opens its unusual rock-themed photography exhibition to see what snappers can make of our most valuable and oldest assets. Here are some Top GeoShots.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Dinosaur fossils in Queensland
Outback Queensland’s bone-dry grazing country is giving up its 100 million-year-old secrets to a mob of dyed-in-the-wool farmers.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Outback skies
Eleven classic planes, countless classic views – an extraordinary safari through Australia’s outback skies.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Gympie-Gympie: stings like “hot acid”
One small touch and this stinging plant sends you into excruciating pain.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Iceland’s volcanic eruptions
Australian geographer Deanne Bird warns that a second volcano could erupt in Iceland.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Gum blossoms of Australia
Colour explodes like festive fireworks from these Australian icons.
Photography
Gallery: Meteorite craters in Australia
Australia has 30 impact craters out of 176 recognised worldwide. See our gallery of some of the best.
Science & Environment
Gallery: Behind the scenes of the realistic animatronic dinosaurs
We go behind the scenes to see what it takes to make realistic animatronic dinosaurs come to life.
Nature & Wildlife
Gallery: Knowing our oceans
Just as the ocean is revealing its mysteries, we’re finding out how delicate its many ecosystems are.