
The Australian Alps’ colourful alter ego
While many Australians know and love our alpine regions for their winter beauty, their lesser-known wildflower season sees the landscape burst to life with a brilliant tapestry of colour.
While many Australians know and love our alpine regions for their winter beauty, their lesser-known wildflower season sees the landscape burst to life with a brilliant tapestry of colour.
What’s all the fuss about PFAS? And how did these manufactured menaces – known as ‘forever chemicals’ – manage to infiltrate global water sources so extensively before anyone realised?
This English-born marine scientist has stepped up to become a leader in the fight to safeguard the world’s reefs.
Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of populations to adapt to threats such as disease and climate change.
As a deadly bird flu continues to wreak havoc across the globe, Australia has so far remained the only continent free of the disease. But experts warn it’s only a matter of time before the lethal virus that causes the disease arrives on our shores.
In a bleak milestone for our planet, it has been confirmed that last year’s global average surface temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
This extraordinarily successful wildlife rescue story will change your view of spiders.
In a world-first, scientists have unearthed the genetic secrets of Australia’s elusive southern marsupial mole.
Australia has already lost at least 100 species since European colonisation. Across land and freshwater habitats, 1,657 species are currently threatened with the same fate. Their populations have fallen 2-3 per cent every year over the last quarter century.
Octopuses are sparking innovation and inspiring us in ways we never thought possible.