Science & Environment Pulling the plug on plastic …calling on the Australian Government to take initiative and show leadership in mitigating marine plastic pollution. The report makes a number of recommendations, including banning products containing microbeads, supporting research…
Science & Environment Iceland risks further catastrophic eruption I HAVE RECENTLY RETURNED from a four-year study in southern Iceland looking at hazard and risk mitigation and emergency response arrangements. Through this research I have gained extensive knowledge of…
News Highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau best place to view stars NEW RESEARCH from Australian and Chinese scientists has confirmed that the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, known as Dome A, is the best place to stargaze on Earth….
Nature & Wildlife What killed off Southeast Asia’s giant hyenas and other megafauna? …what caused so many megafauna species to go extinct? Several theories have suggested either humans, climate change, or both drove Southeast Asia’s megafauna to extinction. However, our newest research published…
Biodiversity Making younger trees age faster to create homes for wildlife …research has found innovative shapes and materials and other approaches can avoid this. Mimicking natural complexity can trick wildlife into using younger trees. Removing limbs, causing damage In Europe, managers…
News Archaeologists find earliest Australians enjoyed a coastal lifestyle …research, published this week in Quaternary Science Reviews, begins to fill in some of these gaps. Island dig For the past five years an international team of 30 scientists has…
Science & Environment Portals of life: inside Australia’s rock pools …here, citing some of his research that focused on two different fish species who compete aggressively for space, while somehow coexisting in the same pool together. “One species prefers vertical…
History & Culture Tasmanian Aboriginal people had many dialects …history. The study opens up new possibilities for language research, especially in areas where source data are scarce. “It’s important to show what we can do with old sources and…
Science & Environment Life on the floodplains …oases rippling with life. Sturt, Burke and other 19th-century European explorers who searched for Australia’s mythical inland sea, would have felt vindicated had they found this. The water can last…
History & Culture Mungo Man heads back to country …research is the construction of a ‘Keeping Place’ – a partially subterranean, research-and-education facility, where scientists could come to study the bones underground in a crypt-like environment. Successive state and…
