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New view of Tweed Valley’s attraction

6 minutes

Researchers estimate up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics lie on the seafloor

7 minutes

It was growing rainforests, not humans, that killed off Southeast Asia’s megafauna

6 minutes

Does Australia really have the deadliest snakes? We debunk 6 common myths

8 minutes

The importance of urban trees

4 minutes

On the hunt for the powerful owl

4 minutes

Last summer's bushfires burned the health budget

4 minutes

Tim Jarvis: Human-wildlife conflict: an unequal contest that needs redefining

9 minutes

More than 90 per cent of protected areas are disconnected

3 minutes

The COVID-19 pandemic has not curbed climate change

3 minutes

Why mozzies prefer some people to others

5 minutes

Are roads more polluting than the cars we drive on them?

3 minutes

Some of our iconic reptiles are heading for extinction

4 minutes

Need a mood lift? We’ve tracked 4 ways Australia’s environment has repaired itself in 2020

8 minutes

Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago

7 minutes

'All things will outlast us': how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction

7 minutes

In a land of ancient giants, these small oddball seals once called Australia home

6 minutes

COVID-19 a reminder of the zoonotic diseases closer to home

10 minutes

From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists were vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery

7 minutes

Australia’s smallest fish among 22 at risk of extinction within two decades

6 minutes

Carbon dioxide levels over Australia rose even after COVID-19 forced global emissions down. Here’s why

7 minutes

It's time for a national approach to monitoring bushfires

3 minutes

Why most Aboriginal people have little say over clean energy projects planned for their land

7 minutes

Collaboration is key to rebuilding coral reefs

4 minutes

Dingoes have gotten bigger over the last 80 years – and pesticides might be to blame

5 minutes

Under climate change, winter will be the best time for burn-offs – but that could be bad news for our health

6 minutes

My talk with Jane Goodall: vegetarianism, animal welfare and the power of children’s advocacy

10 minutes

A whale's snot shows migration takes a toll on their health

7 minutes

Tim Jarvis: Trees are more important now than ever before

8 minutes

The mystery of the Top End’s vanishing wildlife, and the unexpected culprits

8 minutes

CSIRO's newly named species are something to Marvel at

3 minutes

A massive sh*tfight between taxonomists may have reached a conclusion. Finally.

7 minutes

Coal phase-out must overcome "us and them" mentality

3 minutes

The COVID-19 lockdown caused the Earth to go quiet - literally

4 minutes

Australia wants to build a huge concrete runway in Antarctica. Here’s why that’s a bad idea

7 minutes

Meet Moss, the best boy helping Tassie devils find love

6 minutes

Bushfires could trigger 14 per cent rise in threatened native species

3 minutes

Carbon pricing works: the largest-ever study puts it beyond doubt

5 minutes

Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia

5 minutes

Shield bugs change colours to protect themselves from predators

4 minutes

Heatwaves are becoming longer and more frequent, and the worst is still to come

5 minutes

Pacific nations can survive climate change - if locals take the lead

7 minutes

The blame for our failing environment laws lies squarely at the feet of government

8 minutes

An extinct family of giant wombat relatives discovered in Australian desert

6 minutes

Without global action, turtles and tortoises are in trouble

5 minutes

Researchers have found one adorable species that is outsmarting feral cats

7 minutes

We could actually learn something from China's approach to conservation

7 minutes

Australia’s devotion to coal has come at a huge cost. The government needs to change course, urgently

7 minutes

Australia's bushfire smoke hit new heights

3 minutes

Counting the cost of marine debris

3 minutes

Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as a T. rex stomped across Australia 160 million years ago

5 minutes

The Australian black coal industry uses enough water for over 5 million people

8 minutes

Six easy ways to stop light pollution from harming our wildlife

6 minutes

Ancient footprints reveal a terrifying species of crocodile that walked on two legs like a dinosaur

4 minutes

The next global health pandemic could easily erupt in Australia

7 minutes

Night parrots may actually be blinded by the night

4 minutes

Bees? Please... These plants are putting ants to work

4 minutes

A 'black box' of rules is hampering the management of Murray-Darling Basin flows

8 minutes

Earth's sixth mass extinction is happening right now - and humans are driving it

18 minutes

It’s not that hard: 10 reasons why renewable energy is the future

7 minutes

Alien frog invasion wreaks havoc on natural habitat

4 minutes

We dug up Australian weather records back to 1838 and found snow is falling less often

7 minutes

Jeremy Moss: Our response to COVID-19 should not sponsor the fossil fuel industry

4 minutes

Murder hornets? Meh. Our pest wasps decapitate flies and bully dingoes

6 minutes

Tiny rock art may show Indigenous stencil use

3 minutes

A device targeting feral cats could help claw back native animal numbers

8 minutes

An invaluable Indigenous archaeology site was destroyed by Rio Tinto - this is why it was legal

8 minutes

The deep-sea is slowly warming and it's causing ecosystem disruption

5 minutes

Be still, my beating wings: hunters kill migratory shorebirds on their journey to Australia

6 minutes

Researchers uncover the arks of genetic diversity around the globe

4 minutes

Why cats have more lives than dogs when it comes to snakebites

3 minutes

Experts disappointed by the Government's climate and energy roadmap

14 minutes

Just how hot will it get this century?

6 minutes

Bushfires are increasing in size and frequency

4 minutes

Destructive starfish is delicious to some

2 minutes

Seven unbee-lievable facts for World Bee Day

7 minutes

Rare elaphrosaur unexpectedly found in Victoria

5 minutes

Bees are good at maths, but bad at counting

4 minutes

Ancient Australians lived with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as big as cars

7 minutes

Tim Jarvis: The COVID-19 pandemic is a huge opportunity for the environment

7 minutes

Carbon emissions fell during COVID-19 - but it's the shift away from coal that made the difference

7 minutes

Study confirms governments repeatedly ignored scientific advice when approving Adani coalmine

8 minutes

No, Aussie bats won’t give you COVID-19. We rely on them more than you think

8 minutes

The environment loses as subsidies drive Murray-Darling Basin extractions

5 minutes

'When chemistry became biology': looking for the origins of life in hot springs

7 minutes

Logging likely made this year’s bushfires worse, say scientists

5 minutes

How much does a koala need to drink?

4 minutes

Behold, the “Crazy Beast”

5 minutes

Queensland dolphins intentionally beach themselves to trap food

3 minutes

If we can put a man on the Moon, we can save the Great Barrier Reef

7 minutes

These 5 images show how air pollution changed over Australia’s major cities before and after lockdown

5 minutes

Glowing dolphins: The brilliance of bioluminescence off our coasts

7 minutes

The biodiversity debate is over – now let’s save the planet

5 minutes

Ten ‘catastrophic’ threats to our survival highlighted in Australian report

8 minutes

What Colombia’s cocaine hippos and the Kimberley’s donkeys have in common

5 minutes

Exploitation of wildlife is the fast track to more infectious diseases

4 minutes

20 ways you can help the recovery from this year's bushfires

4 minutes

Australian estuaries are warming twice as fast as the oceans

3 minutes

Where the wild things are: As humans stay indoors, nature is emerging

6 minutes

The internet’s favourite dancing spiders just gained seven new species

4 minutes

Bad day: These prehistoric flies were trapped in amber while rooting

5 minutes

Scientists have laid out what's required to rebuild marine life by 2050

6 minutes

The Great Barrier Reef bleached for the third time in five years, and its more widespread than before

5 minutes

New species of sea snake discovered in Western Australia

5 minutes

Here’s what the coronavirus pandemic can teach us about tackling climate change

7 minutes

Dolphins form “boybands” to woo the girls

4 minutes

Top 10 new marine species of the year

11 minutes

Marine protected areas are often not where they should be

7 minutes

This worm-like fossil is the earliest ancestor of most modern animals - including us

6 minutes

The Antarctic Ice Sheet has a snowball effect on Australia

4 minutes

Ancient fish fossil reveals missing link in evolution of hand bones

5 minutes

Save our furry animals after the bushfires, but our river species are suffering too

7 minutes

The best fire management system is in northern Australia and it's led by Indigenous land managers

7 minutes

Drinking water quality under threat by a natural contaminant

6 minutes

Building blocks for life on Earth got here much later than we thought

5 minutes

The last five years were the warmest ever recorded

6 minutes

Female swamp wallabies are always pregnant

5 minutes

How you can help – not harm – wild animals recovering from bushfires

7 minutes

Indian Ocean phenomenon spells climate trouble for Australia

4 minutes

Kea parrots do probability

5 minutes

Yes, Australian bush is recovering from bushfires – but it may never be the same

6 minutes

One little bandicoot can dig up an elephant’s worth of soil a year – and our ecosystem loves it

7 minutes

The Australian bushfires were a fiery wake-up call

4 minutes

Last summer’s mass fish die-off sparked outrage - here’s what has happened since

7 minutes

It might sound batshit insane but Australia could soon export sunshine to Asia

7 minutes

The last ice age tells us why we should care about 2°C temperature changes

7 minutes

Humans may have survived volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago

4 minutes

What we can learn from fish that change sex

6 minutes

Kayaking 2,500km to capture the sounds of the River Murray

4 minutes

Yes, more carbon dioxide helps plants grow - but it's no excuse to downplay climate change

6 minutes

Ancient West Antarctic ice sheet melt increased sea levels by 3+ metres – and it could happen again

9 minutes

I walked 1,200km in the outback to track huge lizards. Here's why

5 minutes

Sugar ants love pee, and it might reduce greenhouse gas emissions

4 minutes

Wasp nests provide an unexpected clue to the age of Kimberley rock paintings

3 minutes

If we want to control greenhouse gases then we need to think 'blue carbon'

6 minutes

Give 'em a hand: Grey seals spotted clapping underwater to communicate

6 minutes

There is no strong, resilient Australia without deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions

37 minutes

Bees learn better when they can explore - humans might work the same way

6 minutes

Want to help with bushfire recovery? It's as easy as snapping a picture

5 minutes

80 of Australia's top researchers urge politicians: "Listen to the science"

11 minutes

New research yet another reminder climate change is leading us towards a water supply disaster

5 minutes

If we keep heading the way we're going, the platypus is in big trouble

4 minutes

"A shark walks into a bar" - four new species change shark family tree

3 minutes

Scientists hate to say 'I told you so'. But Australia, we were warned

6 minutes

Yes, native plants can flourish after a bushfire. But there's only so much they can take

7 minutes

Six million hectares of threatened species habitat has gone up in smoke

8 minutes

A billion animals are dead. What do we do with them now?

7 minutes

In fact, there’s plenty we can do to make future fires less likely

6 minutes

Some say we've seen bushfires worse than this - but they're ignoring a few key facts

10 minutes

Aussie scientists need your help keeping track of bees (please)

6 minutes

Bushfires have caused extinctions before - and it'll happen again

6 minutes

Wild idea - let's rethink the typical Aussie summer holiday

6 minutes

The epic journey of waves is way more interesting than we thought

6 minutes

Bushfires are threatening our drinking water

7 minutes

Nine things you love that are being wrecked by climate change

7 minutes

Hunter or hunted? When the world catches on fire, how do predators respond?

6 minutes

Australia's first baby dinosaur fossils found in NSW

5 minutes

Hermit crabs are making homes in plastic waste and it's killing them

4 minutes

Koalas move like a marsupial and climb like a primate

4 minutes

Naughty or nice? Your Christmas shopping could harm or help the environment

6 minutes

Meet the ancient penguin that started the downsizing trend

4 minutes

Saving the ozone layer in 1987 slowed global warming

4 minutes

Experts respond to a decade of 'exceptional' global heat

4 minutes

Scientists re-counted extinct Australian species and the result is devastating

6 minutes

Dead fish and undrinkable water: the summer ahead for the Murray Darling

6 minutes

A strategic approach to controlled burning boosts effectiveness

4 minutes

Cutting our own emissions isn't enough - it's our exports that matter too

4 minutes

No, koalas aren't functionally extinct

6 minutes

Both people and climate led to megafauna extinction

3 minutes

What are lost continents, and why are we discovering so many?

6 minutes

Boats bug humpback whales

3 minutes

Acoustic observatory will record a galaxy of sounds from our remote wildlife

3 minutes

Why scientists work in the oil and gas industry

7 minutes

Scientists discover why mantis shrimps' brains don't explode

4 minutes

Wolfe Creek Crater is way younger than we thought

6 minutes

Climate change will make firestorms more likely in southeastern Australia

6 minutes

Bushfire smoke is choking the east coast and it's more dangerous than a dust storm

3 minutes

Nemo's cousins have a special way of finding him

3 minutes

"We are now in uncharted territory" - Experts respond to bushfire crisis

5 minutes

What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now?

9 minutes

Climate warnings from the distant past

6 minutes

Expanding and exploiting our understanding of the ocean

3 minutes

Firestorms and flaming tornadoes: how bushfires create their own ferocious weather systems

6 minutes

If now is not the time to talk about climate change, when is?

11 minutes

Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze

6 minutes

Huge-clawed predatory dinosaur discovered in Victoria

4 minutes

11,000 scientists declare a climate emergency

10 minutes

The government must declare a water emergency

4 minutes

It’s not 'wild dog management' – we are just killing dingoes

7 minutes

Darker bird eggs have their purpose

3 minutes

Our native birds are quickly losing their homes

6 minutes

Citizen science project turns whale watchers into published scientists

6 minutes

Whales and dolphins found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

6 minutes

The birthplace of modern humans might be in Botswana

8 minutes

Freshwater hidden under the sea could be a saviour supply

3 minutes

White sharks hang with their buddies

3 minutes

Carbon pumping: going in for the krill

4 minutes

Government fish kill plan launch followed by new mass die-off

2 minutes

Can we make conservation contagious?

3 minutes

Honeybees can learn larger numbers - with a little bit of punishment

6 minutes

How do scientists know evolution is real?

6 minutes

Extinction Rebellion to test little-known defence

5 minutes

A new 'iron dragon' pterosaur

3 minutes

Restoring blue carbon ecosystems could be good for climate and economy

4 minutes

Earliest life found in ancient Aussie rocks

4 minutes

Shark nets don't necessarily make Aussie beaches safer

7 minutes

Tassie devils hold the clue for cancer's game of hide-and-seek

4 minutes

Aussie coasts are at risk if we don't limit climate change

4 minutes

Adding nature to our grand designs

7 minutes

A safe way to clean up oil spills

4 minutes

Predatory climate change deniers are a threat to our children

7 minutes

This week in freaky huge Australian animals...

4 minutes

It might be cute, but this ancient kangaroo was designed to bite

4 minutes

Fossil fuel exports are bad news for two reasons

5 minutes

Federal laws are being broken as threatened species habitat continues to be destroyed

3 minutes

Queensland bushfires: Is this the new normal?

4 minutes

Weird tropical sea snake breathes through its forehead

6 minutes

Australia's renewables power past national target

3 minutes

GM crops: to ban or not to ban? That's not the question

5 minutes

Why are most of the fossils we find male?

4 minutes

Native birds in south-eastern Australia worst affected by habitat loss

3 minutes

Humans began to dominate the Earth 3,000 years ago

3 minutes

No, the pumice raft isn't going to save the Great Barrier Reef

6 minutes

Public transport systems need a rethink to get Aussies on board

4 minutes

Seaweed cow chow prevents bovine burps

4 minutes

The Amazon is burning - here's what experts have to say

7 minutes

Aussie experts respond to report we're all drinking microplastics

9 minutes

Super-deep diamonds shine on ancient rocks from Earth's birth

4 minutes

Looking at the impacts of climate change below ground

4 minutes

What the frack? Could fracking be the cause of recent spikes in methane?

3 minutes

Move over giant parrot, here comes big penguin

3 minutes

The Warnie volcanoes - cricket-mad scientists discover volcanoes in our own backyard

3 minutes

Marine heatwaves are a bigger threat than previously thought

5 minutes

Humans are reducing land's ability to sustain us

5 minutes

New Zealand was home to a seriously giant parrot

5 minutes

Who will defend the defenders?

8 minutes

Detection dogs sniff out vulnerable koalas and flaws in species protection

6 minutes

Magnetic nanosprings could clean up microplastic pollution

3 minutes

Commercial longline fishing threatens sharks worldwide

5 minutes

Indonesia has turned back our waste - it's time to clean up our act

5 minutes

To better manage groundwater, first understand it

7 minutes

Current global warming is unprecedented in the last 2000 years

3 minutes

Finding the genes needed to save Australian mammals

4 minutes

How Tegan became a marine biologist for a gas company

4 minutes

Adani has set a dangerous example in requesting scientists' names

6 minutes

Persecute, protect or ignore? Dilemma as species move due to climate change

3 minutes

Ningaloo’s nursery under the spotlight

4 minutes

Very early Earth had continents that have disappeared completely

3 minutes

Artificial light might make it harder to find Nemo

3 minutes

How Kris went from environmental scientist to COO of a gas company

4 minutes

We could breed cows to make their farts and burps less damaging

3 minutes

Shhh! Don't wake the microbes - they could create carbon bombs

3 minutes

The Night King reigns in Australia

1 minute

Is the Blue Economy sustainable?

8 minutes

Climate change fuels dictatorships in island nations

4 minutes

Sydney declares a climate emergency - here's what that means

4 minutes

Microfibres are polluting the Great Barrier Reef

4 minutes

New satellites show worrying view of droughts and ice loss

3 minutes

Fossils of long-extinct sea creatures found on Kangaroo Island

3 minutes

Koala populations hanging by a thread

3 minutes

Adani mine given final green light

3 minutes

Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental destruction

6 minutes

Australia, US and Brazil lead the world in weakening national parks

7 minutes

Scientists closing in on deadly frog fungus

3 minutes

Honeybees get the concept of symbols as numbers

3 minutes

Corals can't adjust to acidic oceans

3 minutes

There are more fishing vessels, but fewer fish

3 minutes

We're getting better at predicting volcanic eruptions

3 minutes

Giant Antarctic glacier may be melting more in winter than summer

3 minutes

Sleuth scientists trace rogue CFC emissions back to China

4 minutes

Happy Hunger Games, bilbies!

5 minutes

Having an STI could benefit male animals

2 minutes

Plastic waste has trashed one of Australia's most remote islands

4 minutes

Plastic pollution isn’t just harming fish, it’s also affecting our oxygen

2 minutes

Citizen science to help save the Great Barrier Reef

3 minutes

New biodiversity report shows one million species on brink of extinction

9 minutes

Election update: Where the major parties stand on water

6 minutes

Dogs sniff out endangered insects

4 minutes

What happens to wildlife after bushfires?

2 minutes

Fraser Island dingoes and tourists will never mix

4 minutes

Where Protecting Biodiversity Meets Video Games And Cryptocurrency

9 minutes

Ediacaran animals probably didn't look like their fossils

7 minutes

Huge feral-free safe haven to be home for missing native desert animals

5 minutes

Fish that outlived dinosaurs has a hinged skull and tiny brain

3 minutes

It's all a lie - lightning often does strike twice

5 minutes

Bilbies are more than Easter icons – they help out their mates

4 minutes

Murray River habitat restoration increases native fish populations

3 minutes

Australia's health system needs climate-change proofing

3 minutes

You named that new wasp species what?

3 minutes

Australia has even more large, scary spiders

1 minute

Experts respond to Adani coal mine approval

9 minutes

Dingoes keep feral cats under control

4 minutes

Join a Great White Shark on the hunt

3 minutes

AI turns the tables to hunt animal poachers

4 minutes

Three-toed skink amazingly produces both eggs and live young

2 minutes

Baby coral on the Great Barrier Reef has reduced by almost 90%

3 minutes

Frog fungus drives 500 species towards extinction

4 minutes

Banning exotic animal leather in fashion hurts snakes and crocodiles in the long run

6 minutes

Climate change report shows the current reality, and it's not pretty

16 minutes

The marine biologist who is sharks' best friend

9 minutes

Time for a new approach to the Murray-Darling Basin

4 minutes

What an effective Murray-Darling water policy should look like

6 minutes

There’s a better way to manage the kangaroo population

2 minutes

Renewable energy for industry is no sweat with new system

3 minutes

Coal-fired power stations ‘disrupt rainfall patterns’

5 minutes

The terror of climate change is transforming young people’s identity

6 minutes

Newly found Aussie dinosaur confirms diversity in ancient rift valley

2 minutes

The dingo is a true-blue, native Australian species

7 minutes

Balloon plastic waste in oceans the biggest risk to seabirds

3 minutes

Rabbits, fungus top Australian invasive species pest list

2 minutes

This lizard evolved to lay eggs, twice

4 minutes

Evolution's 'Big Bang' was over faster than expected

4 minutes

Rediscovered: the biggest bee in the world

2 minutes

Federal Government releases independent fish deaths report

4 minutes

Tasmanian devil cancer probably won't lead to their extinction

4 minutes

Pursuit of perfection will slow down the energy transition

5 minutes

Giant dinosaur trackway discovered in Queensland

3 minutes

“Pristine” Tasmanian lakes among the most polluted in the world

4 minutes

Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk

6 minutes

Sea temperature drives fish evolution

3 minutes

Honeybees can do maths

3 minutes

Australia sets the pace to renewables

5 minutes

Seaweed prospers with a little kelp from its friends

3 minutes

Nuclear weapons help solve the riddle of the Lungfish

5 minutes

Lizard evolution highlights power of climate change

3 minutes

Extreme weather and geopolitics major drivers of increasing ‘food shocks’

3 minutes

"Australians have been lied to" - Murray Darling Royal Commission

4 minutes

Discovering how a local stream became less salty

3 minutes

Twenty six new bee species discovered in the Australian Outback

3 minutes

Small mammals digging engineer ecosystems

2 minutes

Slice red meat in half to save the planet

3 minutes

Blood pressure, vampire bats and drug traffickers

2 minutes

What killed a million Darling River fish?

4 minutes

Call put out for public help to trace endangered sawfish

3 minutes

Model predicts "impossible to put out" firestorms

3 minutes

Giddy up: help for plump ponies is fast on its way

5 minutes

Top 10 weird science stories of 2018

10 minutes

Turning old clothes into high-end building materials

5 minutes

Survey reveals invasive sea urchin populations have boomed in Tasmania

4 minutes

The top 10 science stories of 2018

11 minutes

Revealed at last: Australia’s fearsome marsupial lion

4 minutes

Recycle your old mobile phone to save gorilla populations

3 minutes

‘Sweet spots’ the key to habitat restoration success

3 minutes

Microplastics found in every turtle tested in international study

2 minutes

Paris is burning! Carbon emissions on the rise

3 minutes

Endangered parrots forced into unnatural sexual behaviour

3 minutes

Australia is not prepared for climate change health impacts, says expert

4 minutes

Farmers start field trial for carbon capture with fungi

3 minutes

The genome of Lonesome George could unlock the secret of ageing

2 minutes

Whale songs’ changing pitch may be response to climate changes

6 minutes

New catalyst material produces abundant cheap hydrogen

3 minutes

Researchers warn of uncertain future for the platypus

2 minutes

Predators predetermine the finding of Nemo

2 minutes

Bees take unconventional parentage to the extreme

1 minute

Four ways our cities can cut transport emissions in a hurry

6 minutes

Unicorns did exist – until they didn’t

3 minutes

Climate litigation heats up globally

3 minutes

The industrial potential of wombat poo

2 minutes

Warming microbes may shrink Southern Ocean carbon sink

3 minutes

Dolphin research informs marine zone planning

3 minutes

Super-fast flying machines defy body logic

3 minutes

Loss of animal or plant species to climate change causes global ‘extinction domino effect’

3 minutes

Australia’s rehabilitation of abandoned mines offers lessons for the world

11 minutes

Krill another day: Antarctic crustaceans more resilient than thought

3 minutes

Public Lecture on the Shape of the Earth

1 minute

Study finds robust corals prime themselves against bleaching

3 minutes

Researchers cast doubts on Indonesian orangutan report

3 minutes

Pharmaceuticals found in our waterways could enter food chain

3 minutes

Low cost tsunami warning system could help prevent future deaths in the Indo-Pacific

3 minutes

Almost all of the Earth’s land and ocean wilderness has disappeared

3 minutes

Waste oil adds energy to plant fertiliser

4 minutes

When did hunters kill off Madagascar megafauna?

3 minutes

Pioneering Earth scientist wins Australian Prime Minister’s Prize for Science

6 minutes

Report turns up the heat on climate policymakers

4 minutes

Big drought could cause gastro problems

2 minutes

Climate change gave roos an evolutionary jump

3 minutes

The secret life of pests

4 minutes

Toxic chemical pollutant spells doom for killer whales

3 minutes

Meet the grandparent of the Brontosaurus

2 minutes

Gene drive causes collapse in captive mosquito population

2 minutes

558-million-year-old fossil is oldest animal on Earth

2 minutes

Cane toad genome offers hope for eventual control

4 minutes

The mathematics of mass extinction

3 minutes

Endangered SA bird song competition determines luck with the ladies

2 minutes

The mathematics of malaria

4 minutes

Cities drive natural selection

2 minutes

Human-induced landslides are increasing

2 minutes

Colouring up: macaws blush to communicate

2 minutes

Researchers find the lost harbour of Pisa

2 minutes

Increased irrigation efficiency actually reduces available water

4 minutes

EU renewable-energy policy chips away at forestry protections

3 minutes

Forests pull off a useful light trick

2 minutes

Marine heatwaves more frequent and intense

3 minutes

Why don't elephants get cancer as often as others?

4 minutes

Easter Island happy, despite the grim faces

3 minutes

Wild fairy-wrens taught stranger danger

2 minutes

School teacher discovers fossil shark teeth along Australian coastline

6 minutes

Platypus protein used in diabetes research

3 minutes

Zapping a new approach to solar cells

4 minutes

Lombok earthquake causes a permanent ground-shift

2 minutes

How useful are stratospheric veils?

2 minutes

A creepy crawly cure for Dravet syndrome

2 minutes

Follow in the footsteps of megafauna

3 minutes

The Spear Project aims to add to our understanding of Bronze Age life

5 minutes

Asthma warning over potential killer dust storm

1 minute

Bacteria becoming tolerant to hand wash

2 minutes

Super rare blue diamonds are a geologist’s best friend

3 minutes

Bushland and farmland not always good neighbours

3 minutes

HK’s microbes like to mingle, at least on the subway

2 minutes

Heatwave deaths likely to rise steadily

2 minutes

Island life makes birds smarter

2 minutes

Old bones shed light on evolution of the human skeleton

1 minute

Global marine wilderness areas are shrinking

2 minutes

Tropics need care and attention

3 minutes

Experts issue warning about pet genetic testing

3 minutes

Reef bleaching changed marine communities

2 minutes

The amazing dragon of Lingwu

1 minute

Ebola may have helped bats resist infection

3 minutes

Baby snake in amber a golden find

3 minutes

Rising global meat consumption could spell trouble

6 minutes

Great Barrier Reef not recovering like it used to

2 minutes

Kelp’s record journey has an environmental downside

3 minutes

Thawing permafrost offers climate clues

1 minute

Don’t challenge these guys to a chilli eating competition

2 minutes

Cosmic neutrinos traced to their source for the first time

3 minutes

Murray microbes test river health

2 minutes

Discovery of SA’s oldest shipwreck

4 minutes

Out of Africa, but not as one

2 minutes

Two-thirds of Gippsland koalas have chlamydia

1 minute

Watch as a six-kilometre iceberg breaks away from glacier

2 minutes

Zebrafish show how the brain reacts to predators

2 minutes

Jumping genes found in animals and plants

3 minutes

Spiders fly using electricity, not wind

2 minutes

Puppies show their learning capacity

3 minutes

This foot was made for walking – and climbing

2 minutes

Bird bacteria linked to horse and human health

1 minute

Dingo Fence more than just a barrier

2 minutes

Genetic code helps explain the ways of koalas

3 minutes

When is a croc not a croc? When it’s a thoracosaur

3 minutes

HIV treatment shortcomings identified in Ethiopia

3 minutes

Virus combo gets the jump on pesky feral rabbits

4 minutes

Atomic details of Zika virus laid bare

1 minute

Bees prefer inner-city living

3 minutes

Past tells us about our warmer future

2 minutes

Antarctica bedrock rising rapidly as ice melts

3 minutes

Feral cats kill over a million reptiles a day in Australia

3 minutes

Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, dies aged 46

1 minute

New gibbon species discovered in ancient Chinese tomb

2 minutes

Eastern Quolls have a tough time on first release back on mainland

2 minutes

Why are bluetongue lizard tongues blue?

3 minutes

Without China importing plastic waste, we’re kinda stuffed

5 minutes

The nose knows: kangaroo face shape dictated by diet

2 minutes

Toothpaste and hand wash boost antibiotic resistance

1 minute

Scaling 70 million years of reptile history

3 minutes

Capturing the underwater magic of camera-shy fish

3 minutes

Bizarre “platypus-fish” inhabited Australia’s original reef

4 minutes

Longevity is in the genes (for trees)

1 minute

Native fish tell story of Australia's less arid past

3 minutes

Platypus hormone has potential to treat diabetes

2 minutes

Eavesdropping on the mysterious narwhal

2 minutes

Waves hasten Antarctic ice shelves collapse

2 minutes

Pygmy perch swam across the desert

1 minute

Coral reefs save coasts and costs

3 minutes

Queen bumblebees affected by insecticides and diet

1 minute

Tracking the false killer whale is not fake news

6 minutes

5 revolutionary ideas that could shape the world in 2050

7 minutes

Warming climate ups risk of global maize shortage

2 minutes

Male dolphins know their mates’ names

2 minutes

Zero sums: bees recognise nothing

3 minutes

Tropical cyclones more sluggish – and dangerous

1 minute

Ancient jaws tell a food story

1 minute

Q&A with panda expert Dr Jake Owens

15 minutes

Review: The Kingdom - How Fungi Made Our World

2 minutes

How did agriculture really get started?

2 minutes

The amazing world revealed through whale snot

4 minutes

The fungus that could avert global warming crisis

6 minutes

US gives the nod to Golden Rice

1 minute

240-million-year-old lizard fossil discovery adds to reptile family tree

3 minutes

Life bounced back quickly after that asteroid

2 minutes

Ancient fish fossil fills gaps in the evolutionary tree

1 minute

The Great Barrier Reef has shifted position five times due to sea level changes

4 minutes

Bumblebees' confusion over iridescence hints at camouflage strategies

4 minutes

Marine microalgae ‘rafting’ into new territory

2 minutes

The dinosaur-killing asteroid warmed the planet for 100,000 years

5 minutes

Humans are just 0.01% of life, but we’ve wiped out most wild mammals and plants

4 minutes

Quest to find more forgotten cities

3 minutes

Water management in Australia needs Indigenous voices

6 minutes

Eruptions and lava flows on Kilauea

6 minutes

Dinosaur-killing asteroid shaped modern bird population

2 minutes

Magpies disregard aircraft danger on runways

4 minutes

Rising carbon dioxide will leach nutrients from rice

2 minutes

When you need things to really stick, do like spiders do

2 minutes

Hunting for ghost mushrooms

8 minutes

Biodegradable plastic bags are not safe for the environment

3 minutes

How birds got their beaks

2 minutes

Scientists find a new way to group atoms

2 minutes

Study could lead to evolution re-think

2 minutes

Intermittent rivers boost global carbon emissions

2 minutes

Itchy science: mosquito saliva triggers your immune system

3 minutes

Hippos leave fish in deep do-do

3 minutes

Genes tell of our distant insect-eating past

3 minutes

Meet the marsupials that mate themselves to death before they disappear

3 minutes

Dodo descendant found in ‘Zealandia’

6 minutes

Extraordinary levels of hidden biodiversity discovered in Fiji

5 minutes

Baleen whales didn’t always have baleen

2 minutes

Genomes provide more clues to human migration

2 minutes

Ants use collective problem-solving to find their way home

5 minutes

The climate change we’re probably not noticing

3 minutes

Bronze Age humans were infected with hepatitis B

1 minute

Scientists measure the weak charge of the proton

2 minutes

The spider army is coming - scientists train spider to jump on command

3 minutes

Throwing a lifeline to native fish stocks

3 minutes

High time for ‘smart’ offshore energy plan

4 minutes