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Troubled waters: Australia’s freshwater fish are facing extinction

How can we stop Australia’s freshwater fish species from going extinct?

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.

Science & Environment

The surprising reason flowers wilt

Wilting flowers might not signal poor flower or plant health, but rather the effects of a sophisticated resource management strategy in plants, millions of years in the making.

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How darkling beetles rose to ‘global ecological dominance’

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and CSIRO have used genomic analysis to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of more than 300 darkling beetle species.

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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.

Science & Environment

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.

AG Society

Winners: Australian Geographic Society’s Awards for Nature 2024

Meet the winners of our first awards program wholly dedicated to the planet.

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NASA launches Europa Clipper into space in search for signs of life on Jupiter’s moon

Australia woke to news this morning that NASA’s latest spacecraft launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center was a huge success. Our own Karina Holden was there for lift off!