Science & Environment
Feeling helpless about the Great Barrier Reef? Here’s one way you can help
As the Great Barrier Reef suffers a second wave of mass bleaching, there is a way to get involved.
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Wildlife
The truth about white-tailed spiders
White-tail spiders have gained a frightening reputation since the 1980s – much of it undeserved. We’ve answered your questions about these misunderstood and maligned arachnids.
Science & Environment
Climate-driven species on the move are changing (almost) everything
From luxuries like champagne to the very livelihoods of fishing communities in the developing world – the climate-driven shifts in species will affect us all.
Wildlife
Possums aren’t the gentle vegetarians you thought they were
We now have ample evidence of these cute marsupials’ taste for flesh – and they could be endangering some of our most threatened birds.
Science & Environment
What exactly are jellyfish, anyway?
How do they swim? Do they have brains? From notorious box jellyfish to innocuous blubbers, jellyfish are as strange and diverse as they are common.
Science & Environment
The science behind Cyclone Debbie
The category 4 cyclone – the fifth storm of this year’s season, and the strongest so far – buffeted the Queensland coast across a wide area centred on Airlie Beach.
Science & Environment
How Australia’s animals and plants are changing to keep up with the climate
Australia’s animals and plants are already demonstrating their resilience to climate change.
Science & Environment
How will Cyclone Debbie compare to Australia’s worst cyclones in history?
The real impact of a cyclone depends on more than just its category, with important factors including its size, tides and the region it hits. Here are some of the most destructive cyclones in Australia’s history.
Science & Environment
How healthy soils make for a healthy life
We’re in danger of losing the health benefits of soils faster than they are replaced.
Wildlife
How an endangered species is clogging our pipes
We may need to consider renaming the Hanley’s river snail to the Hanley’s pipe snail, given the endangered species has survived by taking up residence in an inconvenient man-made habitat.