Science & Environment
Protecting our pollinators
Meet the Aussie beekeepers giving back after their revolutionary hive design caused a buzz in apiaries worldwide.
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Science & Environment
Chasing the Sun
With visions of a more sustainable future, teams from across the globe drive from Darwin to Adelaide in futuristic solar-powered vehicles, in one of the world’s most gruelling innovation and engineering competitions.
Science & Environment
What causes pilot whale strandings?
It’s one of nature’s strangest mysteries that has baffled humans for millennia.
Dr Karl: Need to Know
Dr Karl: Renewables and agriculture can coexist
Electricity and agriculture is not an ‘either/or situation’, argues Dr Karl.
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Are pesticides to blame for recent mass deaths of frogs?
Researchers have found pesticides in a third of the Australian frogs that were tested.
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OPINION: Moving on migration
A recent international report revealed that many of Earth’s great animal migrations are under threat, including some in Australia’s own backyard.
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Near-complete 50,000-year-old kangaroo skeleton retrieved from underground cave
The fossil, hidden underground since the Ice Age, has been brought to the surface in a precarious and meticulous mission executed by a team of intrepid scientists.
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‘Interpol’ database for parrots caught in illegal wildlife trade
Researchers are using forensic genomics to protect parrots from the illegal wildlife trade.
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How to see the ‘devil comet’ from Australia
If you’re a fan of all things space, you’ve doubtless heard about the ‘devil comet’, which has been captivating keen-eyed observers in the Northern Hemisphere for the past few weeks.
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‘Bunyip’ bird returns to restored Tasmanian wetlands
For the first time in more than 40 years, the distinctive booming call of the endangered Australasian bittern once again rings out across the waters of Tasmania’s Lagoon of Islands.