Bushwalking is a hobby most Australians are fond of, but there was a time when women weren’t allowed to take part in these treks – until some trailblazers decided to take a hike.
The fabulous Broken Heel Festival takes the stage one final time, bringing glitz and glamour to far west New South Wales.
More than 20 per cent of plant species are found only on islands – and time is running out to save them.
Australian Geographic staff writer and sub-editor Esme Mathis jumped at the opportunity to join two remote fossil digs for our feature Searching for Aussie dinosaurs.
For the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo, and dogs from East Asia and New Guinea have been discovered.
As humpback and southern right whales return to Antarctica at the tail end of their annual migration, east coast whale watchers may think the show will soon be over. But some whale species are still here, possibly year-round. And we need to find out more about them.
The Foundation of National Parks & Wildlife – the philanthropic partner of Australia’s National Parks – yesterday planted the millionth tree of the Landscape Resilience Program.
About 130km west of Hobart are the remote remnants of the osmiridium mining settlement of Adamsfield, established in 1925.
Researchers suspect that elderly female mud crabs make a lengthy one-way journey to spread their final spawn.
After a stellar 50 years as one of the country’s major scientific assets, the Anglo-Australian Telescope continues to play a major role in keeping Australian astronomy on the world stage.