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Life on the floodplains

…expanse of rocks and dust, sparsely vegetated by stunted plants, to huge oases rippling with life. Sturt, Burke and other 19th-century European explorers who searched for Australia’s mythical inland sea,…

History & Culture

Mungo Man heads back to country

…research is the construction of a ‘Keeping Place’ – a partially subterranean, research-and-education facility, where scientists could come to study the bones underground in a crypt-like environment. Successive state and…

Science & Environment

Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry

…Graeme Clark, Research Associate in Ecology, UNSW Australia; Katherine Dafforn, Senior Research Associate in Marine Ecology, UNSW Australia, and Mariana Mayer-Pinto, Research Associate in marine ecology, UNSW Australia This article…

Science & Environment

‘Old man’ of the sea: rare, giant 400-year-old coral discovered

…centuries of exposure to other threats. We describe the discovery in research published today. Our team surveyed the hemispherical structure, which comprises small marine animals and calcium carbonate, and found…

Wildlife

Am I not pretty enough? Let's give the good old yabby some love

…species of Australian crayfish found And yet, little is known how their diets influence their growth and alter their quality as a food source. Our recent research starts to fill…

Science & Environment

Aboriginal Australians co-existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years

…so much work remains to be done. There is still a great deal to learn about Australia’s ancient megafauna. Michael Westaway is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre…

Science & Environment

Antarctica: a continent in crisis

…in Christchurch, New Zealand, in July–August 2023, his words drew gasps of despair that later rippled around the world. SCAR – the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research – represents scientists…

Science & Environment

This scientist wants you to sunbathe in a storm water channel

…you could just get the channel looking attractive!” This vision is at the heart of Kate’s research: how to improve storm water quality and additionally, how to make storm water…

Science & Environment

How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle?

…Research Scientist at the CSIRO; Kathy Ann Townsend is a Lecturer in Animal Ecology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and Qamar Schuyler is a Research Scientist at Oceans…

News

Current emissions could already warm world to dangerous levels

CURRENT GREENHOUSE GAS concentrations could warm the world 3-7°C (and on average 5°C) over coming millennia. That’s the finding of a paper published in Nature today. The research, by Carolyn…

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Life on the floodplains

Mungo Man heads back to country

Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry

‘Old man’ of the sea: rare, giant 400-year-old coral discovered

Am I not pretty enough? Let's give the good old yabby some love

Aboriginal Australians co-existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years

Antarctica: a continent in crisis

This scientist wants you to sunbathe in a storm water channel

How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle?

Current emissions could already warm world to dangerous levels