The long debate on whether or not people should be able to climb Uluru was settled yesterday by the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board, which confirmed the climbs closure.
Scientists from the Sea-quence Project have applied the same technology used in human genome sequencing to coral genome sequencing, producing spectacular results.
Those daring individuals pursuing adventure in the name of conservation are the big winners of this year’s prestigious Australian Geographic Society Awards, with the official ceremony to be held tonight at the Sofitel Wentworth Grand Ballroom in Sydney.
Remote night-vision cameras and audio recordings have been used to identify two koalas in a Central Coast national park.
While reintroducing a rare marsupial to its original ecosystem is a worthwhile objective, one scientists argues that a better understanding of these rare marsupials biology and diets should come first.
Watch nature in action as a carpet python hauls a dead possum all the way up a tree and into the canopy.
The Oristicta rosendaleorum is the first new species of damselfly to be discovered in a decade.
Scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency who discovered the cave say that it could be used as a base for astronauts, especially if it’s found to contain water.
In his last days, cooped up in a jail cell, Ned Kelly wrote that he had never killed an innocent man. But a new study refutes this, arguing that Kelly was directly responsible for the death of an innocent quarryman.
The aim of the crowdfunding campaign, ‘Operation PKO’ is to build a hundred nesting boxes fitted with a mechanical door that will keep out the birds main predator, the sugar glider.