Nature & Wildlife Antarctica, explored …searching for new sealing grounds when he found continental Antarctica in November 1820, and in February 1821, English-born American sailor John Davis, also seeking seals, claimed to be the first…
Climate How the 2016 bleaching transformed the northern Great Barrier Reef …further 20% loss in 2017, and big changes in community structure. New research published in Nature today now reveals the damage that these losses caused to the wider ecosystem functioning…
Nature & Wildlife Desert rainbowfish: how they survive in Australia’s scorching desert …of years – how do they do it? We at the Flinders Molecular Ecology Lab went about finding out. Our recent research examined rainbowfish in Australia, to discover how they…
Searching for Shambhala …explorers and documentary makers have sought to find the location of Hilton’s Shangri-La, a place created in an authors mind. In 2002 it seemed that at last the search was…
AG Blog Why do popular animals get all the funding? WOULD YOU RATHER DONATE to a koala than a crocodile? New research supported by the Australian Geographic Society examines what drives people to donate, and whether there is a pattern…
Biodiversity Searching for the marsupial mole …common marsupials in the arid zone,” he says. Interesting absence Joe joined the Australian Geographic Society’s ninth scientific expedition to search for signs of the itjaritjari, or southern marsupial mole, in…
Strange pulsar found by volunteer army …Einstein@Home is one of over 50 volunteer computing projects currently supporting scientific research from institutions around the world, including in biomedical research, particle physics, climate research, and seismology. LINKS Einstein@Home…
Nature & Wildlife Plastic measures …every aspect of modern life. “We’re absolutely surrounded by it,” says Emeritus Professor Sarah Dunlop, who leads the Minderoo Foundation’s Plastics and Human Health research program in Perth. But while…
Nature & Wildlife Should we feed wildlife after natural disasters? …they can’t digest, and attracting predators and pests to feeding sites. To date, there hasn’t been much research on feeding wildlife after disasters. Much of what we know relates to…
Tree frogs shake off rivals …Current Biology. Seismic research During the initial study season, Greg and colleague Karen Warkentin, who were both then working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, used a miniature…
