environment Archives

Feeling nauti? We’ve got a quiz for that

In honour of World Oceans Day this week, we’ve looked beyond the shore to test your knowledge and hopefully provide a few more facts on our great blue planet.

What’s the catch? Fishing boats double to 3.7 million

As demand for fish continues to grow, new research has revealed that the global fishing fleet has doubled to 3.7 million.

Oceans

Curious Kids: Why are there waves?

When you look at the waves breaking at the beach, those waves might be at the end of a long journey. They could have been created far away, or just nearby.

Nature’s cleaners: the little helpers treating mine water

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.

Eyes on the deep sea: the coral that thrives in the dark

We are surveying deep-sea coral reefs growing on underwater mountains to deepen our understanding of these extraordinary marine communities.

Environment

Gardens in the ice: the flora of Antarctica

Not just ice, Antarctica is host to hardy mosses, lichens, and flowering plants that persist on a continent of extremes, extreme scarcity—water, heat, nutrients—and extreme overabundance—wind and radiation.

Environment

It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan has been politically fraught and mired in scandal. But environmental monitoring suggests that the health of the rivers is indeed improving – even if it will take decades.

Harvesting sunlight to make valuable green products

Solar offers clean, renewable energy, but not just for powering our residential homes. Sunlight could be harvested to make more eco-friendly products.

Environment