News Thylacine hunted more like a cat than a dog …pursuit predators. Dr Stephen Wroe, a biomechanist from UNSW, says the new research is a significant contribution to existing knowledge about the thylacine’s hunting habits. “You can tell a lot…
News Not just for nori rolls: seaweed's huge potential examined …from the atmosphere a year. “The potential is massive, it’s a huge ocean,” said the University of Queensland’s Scott Spillias who led the research. “Farming more seaweed in the ocean…
News Fish recovery good news for Murray River …and floodplains. The initiative is part of South Australian Government’s $100 million Riverine Recovery Project. SA Research and Development Institute (SARDI) is currently leading an extensive research project aimed at…
News Human impact and climate changed killed megafauna JUST WHAT KILLED off the world’s megafauna has long been a hotly debated topic – but new research confirms a rapidly warming climate was mostly to blame, with the arrival…
Science & Environment Did smoke from the Black Summer fires give rise to the triple La Nina? …volumes of smoke ate away at our protective ozone layer. Now, new research by American scientists suggests the Black Summer fires were massive enough to influence the El Niño Southern…
Science & Environment Prescribing a ‘dose of nature’ delivers health budget savings …green spaces with high biodiversity are often degraded and squeezed by development. Our new research puts a dollar value on the health benefits of visits to national parks within reach…
News Fighting the skin disease killing Australia’s wombats After three years of research into the molecular biology and genetics of the wombat mite, the University of the Sunshine Coast-led collaboration has been awarded a New South Wales Government…
Nature & Wildlife Tasmanian devils look set to conquer facial tumour disease IN THE MIDST of a human pandemic, we have some good news about a wildlife one: our new research, published today in Science, shows Tasmanian devils are likely to survive…
News Giant iceberg decimates Antarctic penguin colonies …Glacier Tongue. According to research published this month in the journal Antarctic Science, the iceberg caused fast ice expansion in the region (floating sea ice that is permanent attached to…
News Volcano voyage seeks truth about hotspots …These hotspots create chains of volcanoes as tectonic plates move over the top of them. “The research will shed light on the dynamic processes of the Earth’s mantle,” says Dr…
