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…
News 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…
News Scientists eavesdrop on fish chatter …protected. Vulnerability The study will extend previous research on mulloway and focus on other commercially important seafood species. These include snapper, black bream and the poorly understood dhufish. Miles adds…
News Convict sites get World Heritage listing …the Marshall Islands and the South Pacific nation of Kiribati – earned their first World Heritage tags. The full list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites can be found at: whc.unesco.org/en/list…
Sponsorship Where there's a whisker, there's a way ONE THE COAST OF SA, an Australian Geographic Society-funded researcher has been studying the snacking habits of the endangered Australian sea lion. By tagging sea lions, watching their movements, and…
Gear Test Icebreaker kodiak long sleeve hood …in these rather extreme conditions, it’s a versatile piece of gear – as you’d hope, considering the hefty price tag – which is equally useful in those moments when it…
Wildlife State of fear: what should we do about sharks in NSW? …the year. But experience from Western Australia shows that shark culls also do not work. Instead, NSW Premier Mike Baird has announced an A$250,000 shark tagging and surveillance program alongside…
Science & Environment Synchronised sex …of marine studies at Southern Cross University and a member of the research team at James Cook University that discovered the mass coral spawning phenomenon on the Great Barrier Reef…
Adventure A very long pathway …recall something from the guidebook about it being “not quite mountaineering” but I commit to tackling it one step at a time. Searching out the orange marker poles bent over…
News Dugong rescue operation in NSW …Moreton bay. Sea World has been working with the University of Queensland in monitoring the population of dugongs in Moreton bay, and they plan to place a satellite tag on…