News Music of ancient stars reveals stellar surprise …in random directions due to “massive turbulent motion” inside the gas cloud where they form. But this research shows the overall rotation of the “stellar nursery” cloud is transferred to…
Science & Environment Should we rethink national parks? …burn-research programs that have been going for 50 years, and vegetation at 600 sites is monitored three times a year. In comparison, Kakadu’s research programs are generally short term, ad…
AG Society News Environmental scholarships underway Seven top students have begun their environment work after being awarded a BAYERboost scholarship for the 2011-2012 summer holidays. The scholarship funds have gone to help research endangered species, climate…
News In world first, scientists track eels’ mysterious route …able to reconstruct the migration route of the eels and also determine what’s happened to them along the way,” says Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research fish ecologist Wayne Koster,…
Travel Antarctica by air …offset through Carbon Neutral, a carbon solutions provider and carbon offset developer. During the flight we also participated in an auction to raise funds for polar research via the Antarctic…
Wildlife Outcast: the plight of the dingo …any dog has the potential to kill livestock,” says Greg Mifsud from the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre. The National Wild Dog Action Plan (NWDAP), introduced in 2015 with the…
Science & Environment Herbaria bring centuries-old science into the digital age …care in methods of preserving them, these specimens are often in excellent condition more than 200 years after their collection and still able to be used productively in scientific research.…
News Endangered sawfish battle crocodiles and sharks …sawfish are eaten or killed, but we know from the scarring on surviving sawfish that a lot of them are attacked,” said David. Previous research by David’s team has identified…
Science & Environment We have almost certainly blown the 1.5-degree global warming target …This article is adapted from a blog post that originally appeared here. Andrew King, Climate Extremes Research Fellow, University of Melbourne and Benjamin J. Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and…
Science & Environment The bizarre marine creatures of Antarctica …for most of the year, and living in cold water near the seafloor, are thousands of unique and colourful species. Our research has generated new techniques to map where these species…
