Climate
State of the Climate 2024: How is Australia faring?
Australia is enduring harsher fire seasons, more ocean heatwaves and sea-level rise.
Tag: Science & Environment
Nature & Wildlife
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.
Biodiversity
Island life is more unique than you ever realised, and it needs protecting
More than 20 per cent of plant species are found only on islands – and time is running out to save them.
Biodiversity
Winners: Australian Geographic Society’s Awards for Nature 2024
Meet the winners of our first awards program wholly dedicated to the planet.
Biodiversity
One million trees planted, eight million to go
The Foundation of National Parks & Wildlife – the philanthropic partner of Australia’s National Parks – yesterday planted the millionth tree of the Landscape Resilience Program.
Nature & Wildlife
Bear minimum isn’t enough to save Great Koala National Park
“Koala numbers have halved in the past 20 years… We must turn this trend around and instead double the number of east-coast koalas by 2050.”
Nature & Wildlife
Have you ever seen a fish yawn?
Scientists have investigated why some underwater species yawn – and the reason is not what you might think.
Nature & Wildlife
Unzipping deep blue genes
In our nation’s marine life lies potential chemical and pharmaceutical discoveries, but can the rights of nature be balanced against corporate interests?
Biodiversity
Light in the night: Flock of Australia’s rarest bird discovered in WA
Indigenous rangers in outback Western Australia have found up to 50 night parrots – one of Australia’s most elusive birds – in a “breakthrough discovery”.
Climate
Warmer winters are waking snakes from their slumber sooner
Warm winters are waking snakes early – here’s what that means for them and us.