Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.
Newly discovered...
Introduced foxes, dogs, cats, rats, and other predators kill millions of native animals every year, but what if they were conditioned to associate this...
A locally found pathogenic fungus, Beauveria australis, has for the first time been observed infecting imported dung beetles in Australia.
The discovery by Australia's national science...
As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not clear that government...
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A non-profit group is imploring the new federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to consider the climate change impacts of 19 fossil fuel projects...
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More than 1,800 Australian plants and animals are considered at-risk of extinction, and yet protecting threatened species is almost entirely absent from the current election...
Image: Cherax destructor; the common yabby. Author provided
For children growing up in rural areas, going “yabbying” in farm dams is a rite of passage. The common...
‘Songs of Disappearance’, a still taken from the animation by Mervyn Street & Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman. The Bowerbird Collective, Author provided (no reuse)
Australia is losing its birds...
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Over the last decade, the area protected for nature in Australia has shot up by almost half. Our national reserve system now covers 20% of...
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Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley is reportedly poised to decide whether some koala populations should be listed as endangered, as new research shows her...
