Biodiversity
Rare, almost mythical Australian tree kangaroos can finally be studied, thanks to new tech
Australia’s most mysterious marsupials can now be detected using new technology.
Tag: Science & Environment
Nature & Wildlife
PFAS: The forever chemical reality
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?
History & Culture
Ocean warrior
This English-born marine scientist has stepped up to become a leader in the fight to safeguard the world’s reefs.
Nature & Wildlife
Australia remains on high alert for killer bird flu despite enduring recent high-risk migration season
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.
Biodiversity
Moonstruck: How lunar light influences animal behaviour
Lunar animal research is receiving the technological and methodological breakthroughs necessary for the next wave of intriguing findings.
Biodiversity
Using cane toads to destroy cane toads: how ‘Peter Pan’ tadpoles are keeping these pests from ever growing up
Researchers from Sydney’s Macquarie University have discovered cane toad tadpoles are cannibalistic and can help stop the spread of their fellow toads if they remain in their pre-metamorphosis state.
Nature & Wildlife
The mysterious scar found in the Australian outback using Google Earth
A man scouring Google Earth found a mysterious scar in the Australian outback – and now scientists know what caused it.
Biodiversity
Troubled waters: Australia’s freshwater fish are facing extinction
How can we stop Australia’s freshwater fish species from going extinct?
Nature & Wildlife
Corpse flowers and flesh flies: why so many plants and fungi smell like death
This is the titan arum. It’s a plant that makes news whenever it flowers in a botanic garden around the world. It’s sometimes called a lily, but it’s an arum, a genus not closely related to true lilies.
Nature & Wildlife
Outback lady lizards have given up on sex in favour of cloning themselves
Hiding beneath scrap metal and abandoned cars in the Australian desert, you can find an ordinary-looking species of gecko that has an extraordinary biological trait: they don’t have sex.