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100 million-year-old weevils trapped in amber are helping piece together earth’s ecological past.
Capturing a mining site’s tiny, yet complex microbial community, and putting it to work to ‘clean itself up’, could bring a revolution in water remediation efforts.
Researchers have identified a new species of shark known only from specimens in collections.
We explore the science behind the recent toxic algae outbreak and the mass fish loss in the Murray Darling, and look at ways to manage it in the future.
At the end of the day, who doesn’t like a good poo story (especially when it's about poo from the largest animal on Earth)!
The food we eat and the way we produce it are causing some pretty big environmental problems. We now have global scientific targets give to all humans a healthy diet without depleting the planet’s resources.
Our research shows that huge economic and environmental benefits could come from fully using fish now discarded. If all of the edible fish caught was kept and sold, both the sustainability and profitability of fishing would significantly improve.
Why are Aussie cicadas so loud on hot, summer days? You’d be screeching too if, after seven years underground, you only had a few weeks to find a mate before you died.
Our new fur seal wellbeing study has lead to changes in ecotourism regulations to protect this important species. Fur real.
We've released our fifth biennial State of the Climate report with the Bureau of Meteorology.
Only half of Australia’s approximately 400 different species of mosquitoes have been scientifically named and described. So how are scientists able to tell the unnamed species apart?
Could future foods such as insects, seaweed and lab-grown meat feed us in both an environmentally sustainable and healthy way?
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