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Nature & Wildlife

Cockatoos causing trouble in Blue Mountains

…forced more cockatoos to move east to look for food. But we really know very little about these birds and so that’s why we are we are conducting more research.”…

Biodiversity

Volunteer divers wanted in the Coral Sea

…says will help survey, tag and photograph diseased areas of the reef, which scientists will then monitor over time. For more information and to apply go to Earthwatch Institute Australia…

Science & Environment

Dingoes use tools to solve novel problems

DINGOES ARE MUCH SMARTER than humans give them credit for, according to new research. While the native canines are known for their smarts in hunting skills, they are also able…

Science & Environment

Deep-sea mud source of '21st-century gold'

…many other advanced technologies. These elements carry exotic names such as neodymium, promethium and yttrium but despite their ‘rare-earth’ tag are in fact abundant in the planet’s crust. The problem,…

News

Rare gum rises from Black Saturday ashes

…Work is also being done at the reserve between Taggerty and Buxton to control other threats to the gums, including a native parasitic climber, cassytha, and grazing by rabbits, wombats…

Nature & Wildlife

Sharks are fantastic navigators

SHARKS ARE FAMED for extraordinary hearing, motion sensing and smell, but new research shows some species can also navigate with pinpoint accuracy over long distances. “Simply put, they know where…

Nature & Wildlife

Echidnas have sex while sleeping, study says

…among the most common mammals in Australia, little has been known about the reproductive practices of short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus). However, an Australian Geographic Society-sponsored research project, at the University…

Science & Environment

Speed of a lamb's bleat linked to survival

…Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and colleagues at the Sheep Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) collected records from 15,000 lambs, more than 6000 adult females and 284 sires from eight…

Destinations

Climbing Southeast Asia's highest mountain

…sometimes their kids tag along (just to rub it in). Another excuse to stop comes in the form of rest shelters, open-sided huts called pondoks. Each has a toilet, some…

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Victorians to get free electric car trial

…seeing big cuts in transport, and the simple way of achieving big cuts in transport is to move to the new technologies,” he says. But with a price tag of…

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Cockatoos causing trouble in Blue Mountains

Volunteer divers wanted in the Coral Sea

Dingoes use tools to solve novel problems

Deep-sea mud source of '21st-century gold'

Rare gum rises from Black Saturday ashes

Sharks are fantastic navigators

Echidnas have sex while sleeping, study says

Speed of a lamb's bleat linked to survival

Climbing Southeast Asia's highest mountain

Victorians to get free electric car trial