Biodiversity
Mallee survivor
One of Australia’s smallest and most endangered bird species is needing help to survive its harsh environment.
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Science & Environment
Engineering bioplastics for the future
CSIRO has partnered with Murdoch University to launch the Bioplastics Innovation Hub (BIH), to help fast-track the development of biologically derived, compostable plastics.
History & Culture
Queens of the outback
The fabulous Broken Heel Festival takes the stage one final time, bringing glitz and glamour to far west New South Wales.
History & Culture
Notes from the field: Digging her job
Australian Geographic staff writer and sub-editor Esme Mathis jumped at the opportunity to join two remote fossil digs for our feature Searching for Aussie dinosaurs.
History & Culture
Indigenous Ice Age exodus
Today, all traces of where inhabitants once lived now lie beneath the waves.
Nature & Wildlife
Dingo descendants unveiled
For the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo, and dogs from East Asia and New Guinea have been discovered.
Travel
Cruising with whale sharks
Western Australia’s Ningaloo coast is all it’s cracked up to be – and more.
Biodiversity
The Adamsfield mining rush
About 130km west of Hobart are the remote remnants of the osmiridium mining settlement of Adamsfield, established in 1925.
History & Culture
A telescope for a Golden Age
After a stellar 50 years as one of the country’s major scientific assets, the Anglo-Australian Telescope continues to play a major role in keeping Australian astronomy on the world stage.
Nature & Wildlife
Cocky whispering at Coomallo Creek
This patch of remnant bush on the edge of the West Australian wheatbelt is a place loved by one of Australia’s rarest bird species and the man who has studied the site for more than 50 years.