Our scientists are working on a silent but effective stalking operation tracking COVID-19. It involves wading through our waste water.
Researchers have achieved the first step in developing an early warning surveillance system to track COVID-19 in the community tracing the virus in sewage.
World Water Day is on Sunday, 22 March. We're celebrating the importance of water in science and sharing a splash of our research.
Queensland farmer Daniel Wegener is using a technique we developed called early sowing to make the best of the current drought.
Researchers find movement on Mars! It’s in the gullies. And it can tell us more about gully erosion here on Earth.
Recently Australia has seen devasting scenes of blistering heat, historic low rainfall and drought across central and eastern Australia. While our history is punctured by droughts battering Australia, what can they tell us about the future?
Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs have raw and untreated sewage from 3,500 people discharged directly into the Tasman Sea.
New research revealed unsealed and damaged rainwater tanks could expose millions of Australians to the risk of mosquito-borne infectious diseases like dengue fever. So how can you keep your tank safe?
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.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC, is the strongest ocean current on our planet and is vital for Earth’s health because it keeps Antarctica cool and frozen.
Sawfish are critically endangered. We recently worked with Indigenous rangers to help save these sawsome fish!
You can help scientists around the world monitor water quality by simply downloading an app and taking a photo of water when you see it.
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