We’ve discovered Sydney's hottest new locale: a cluster of ancient volcanoes hidden 5km below the sea.
Australia’s new research vessel Investigator discovered extinct volcanoes likely to be 50 million years old, about 250 km off the coast of Sydney.
The Great Australian Bight is an iconic marine environment. To celebrate World Oceans Day, here's five not-so-fishy-facts about the GAB, as it's so affectionately known.
Wouldn’t it be good if there were a spare ecosystem we could try things out on before making decisions? That's why we built Atlantis, a marine ecosystem modelling tool for testing out resource and planning decisions.
Phytoplankton put on a stunning show of bioluminescence at South Arm in Tasmania, turning the beach blue for kilometres, glowing and flashing.
We've found rotating the harvest zone improves biological and economic performance of the fishery, as well as lengthening the rotations out to six years.
We have been reunited with an old friend. We met a long time ago, 22 years in fact, and we […]
For 8 days in January, Newcastle beaches were closed while sharks 'plagued the coastline'. Was the frenzy warranted? No, says our resident shark expert.
CSIRO researchers have been working to characterise the traditional small-scale fisheries on the PNG side of the Torres Strait.
The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish is one of the biggest threats to the future of our coral reefs.
By Jaci Brown, CSIRO Occasional erratic bursts southward of the East Australian Current (EAC) are thought to have moderated the […]
Counting sharks isn’t quite like counting sheep – you can’t just sit underwater going ‘One, two, three …’ and hope […]
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