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Nature & Wildlife

Teaching toads: how we can save native species from cane toads

…wiped out. Cane toads were introduced to destroy sugar cane pests. Image credit: Shutterstock Cane toads have so far proven unstoppable. But research suggests even if we can’t eradicate the toads,…

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Meet the couple that travelled Australia in search of the best swimming spots

…present swimming as a solo activity, avoiding peak seasons and searching for solitude. “We’ve included the more isolated spots as well, but we also wanted to capture the Australian identity,”…

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Biodiversity

Very hungry caterpillars: New hero emerges in war on plastic waste

…2050, it is estimated that plastic in the oceans will outweigh fish. But research underway at Macquarie University may hold the key to solving Australia’s growing plastic waste problem. Microbiologist…

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Third global bleaching event took its toll on WA’s super-corals

…My past research has shown that these naturally extreme conditions increase the heat tolerance of Kimberley corals but that they are nevertheless not immune to bleaching when water temperatures are…

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In search of our mysterious painted-snipe

There were no Australian painted-snipes the morning I searched the drainage ditches near Brisbane Airport in November 2023. Although one had been photographed there days earlier, the wily wader eluded…

News

Whales stop singing and rock lobsters lose their balance: how seismic surveys can harm marine life

…Ryan Day, Senior research fellow, University of Tasmania; Jayson Semmens, Professor, Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration, University of Tasmania, and Robert McCauley, Professor at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology,…

Land

Whales to insects: A dingo's breakfast on K'gari

Dingoes on Queensland’s popular K’gari (Fraser Island) consume one of the widest size ranges of prey in the animal kingdom, according to research published in Scientific Reports. Dingoes are a…

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Prime Minister's Science Prizes awarded

…in Canberra. Professor John Shine, the executive director of the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, won the top honour, for his discovery of a gene sequence that led to cloned…

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Grub's up!

…Josh Evans in April 2014 from Central Australia on the blog of the Nordic Food Lab. All in the name of research, he travelled to Yuendumu, north of Alice Springs…

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