Nature & Wildlife
You’d be barking mad to miss this year’s Top Dog Film Festival
Who doesn’t love watching heart-warming films of furry friends em-barking on adventures? (See what we did there?)
Australian Geographic Adventure
Explore the world on two wheels: The ultimate guide to bikepacking
Combining elements of trekking, camping and cycle touring, plus the spirit of Australia’s historical ‘overlanders’, bikepacking opens the world up to two-wheeled exploration.
Nature & Wildlife
A bigger and stronger Garma – the best of the festival in pictures
Celebrating all the colour and life of Garma 2022.
Nature & Wildlife
Whale shark dethrones kodiak bear as world’s largest omnivore
Move over kodiak bears, it turns out whale sharks are the largest omnivorous animal on Earth.
Nature & Wildlife
Australian scientists developing world-first varroa mite pesticide safe for honey bees
Australian scientists are working to develop a world-first, hormone-based pesticide that is safe for honey bees but fatal to varroa mite.
Nature & Wildlife
Two year study shows living seawalls promote regeneration in Sydney Harbour
Solid evidence is now available to support the value of the Living Seawalls project to marine environments that have been affected by construction.
Nature & Wildlife
Monkeypox: World Health Organization declares it a global health emergency – here’s what that means
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the current monkeypox epidemic a global health emergency.
Nature & Wildlife
World first: evidence of stingrays making sounds
A study published in the journal ‘Ecology’ presents the first evidence of two species of stingrays producing sounds for self-defence.
Climate
After flooding rains come fires
More catastrophic bushfire seasons are being predicted, despite two years of deluges along the eastern seaboard.
Nature & Wildlife
Thousands of giant crabs amass off Australia’s coast. Scientists need your help to understand it
Spider crabs form huge underwater piles, some as tall as a person. These fascinating crustaceans are on a risky mission – to get bigger.