Wildlife Aussie threatened birds declined by 59 per cent over the past 30 years Australia’s threatened birds declined by nearly 60 per cent on average over 30 years, according to new research that reveals the true impact on native wildlife of habitat loss, introduced…
News Bunbury dolphins serve up calamari for dinner …a decade – during research funded by the South West Marine Research Program, led by the Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit and based at the Bunbury Dolphin Discovery Centre –…
Science & Environment Nice weather for aliens …a frigid, arid world, with an atmosphere just a tenuous wisp of its former glory. The search for life out there Astronomers should soon begin to discover the first truly…
Wildlife Dancing to the beat: this is what Australians and our cockatoos have in common AFTER DECADES of research, we now know that birds are far smarter than we ever gave them credit for, making the insult “bird brain” redundant. Adding to this research, a…
Science & Environment The summer bushfire you heard nothing about …native grasses, providing fuel for intense and widespread fires. But our research highlights the new danger posed by buffel grass, a highly invasive foreigner sweeping across inland Australia and able…
News Tassie tiger extinction: humans solely to blame HUMANS WERE EXCLUSIVELY RESPONSIBLE for the disappearance of the Tasmanian tiger, new research has revealed. Using a new method, scientists at the University of Adelaide, SA, have confirmed that human-induced…
News Nullarbor once flush with fast-flowing rivers NOW ARID, THE NULLARBOR region was once full of fast-flowing rivers, new research reveals. After analysing sediments extracted from a well in the Great Australian Bight, scientists from the University…
Science & Environment Clear-cutting koala country …the survey work, which, Dean explains, include broad-area habitat searches, acoustic wildlife monitoring and, most recently, thermal drone imaging to help better understand how wildlife populations respond to timber harvesting…
News Australian Geographic to screen lost Moon footage …during a decade-long search for the original recordings of the moonwalk, and involved lengthy detective work and clandestine meetings, says astronomer and telescope operator John Sarkissian from the CSIRO at…
News World-first blue whale nursing footage …was captured by Leigh Torres, a marine ecologist at Oregon State University, while on a research cruise in the South Taranaki Bight, off the western coast of New Zealand. Leigh…
