Nature & Wildlife Dancing to the beat: This is what Australians and our cockatoos have in common After decades of research, we now know that birds are far smarter than we ever gave them credit for, making the insult “bird brain” redundant. Adding to this research, a…
Photography Pro's guide to wildlife photography in the field …Devil Program research trapping trips and the lab work being done at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research to understand the devil facial tumour disease and try to create a…
Science & Environment Thylacine hunted more like a cat than a dog …pursuit predators. Dr Stephen Wroe, a biomechanist from UNSW, says the new research is a significant contribution to existing knowledge about the thylacine’s hunting habits. “You can tell a lot…
Climate Not just for nori rolls: seaweed's huge potential examined …from the atmosphere a year. “The potential is massive, it’s a huge ocean,” said the University of Queensland’s Scott Spillias who led the research. “Farming more seaweed in the ocean…
News Fish recovery good news for Murray River …and floodplains. The initiative is part of South Australian Government’s $100 million Riverine Recovery Project. SA Research and Development Institute (SARDI) is currently leading an extensive research project aimed at…
News Human impact and climate changed killed megafauna JUST WHAT KILLED off the world’s megafauna has long been a hotly debated topic – but new research confirms a rapidly warming climate was mostly to blame, with the arrival…
Science & Environment Did smoke from the Black Summer fires give rise to the triple La Nina? …volumes of smoke ate away at our protective ozone layer. Now, new research by American scientists suggests the Black Summer fires were massive enough to influence the El Niño Southern…
Science & Environment Prescribing a ‘dose of nature’ delivers health budget savings …green spaces with high biodiversity are often degraded and squeezed by development. Our new research puts a dollar value on the health benefits of visits to national parks within reach…
Nature & Wildlife Fighting the skin disease killing Australia’s wombats After three years of research into the molecular biology and genetics of the wombat mite, the University of the Sunshine Coast-led collaboration has been awarded a New South Wales Government…
Nature & Wildlife Tasmanian devils look set to conquer facial tumour disease IN THE MIDST of a human pandemic, we have some good news about a wildlife one: our new research, published today in Science, shows Tasmanian devils are likely to survive…
