The average Australian feral cat kills 225 reptiles a year, which adds up to 596 million in total, according to a new estimate. Pet cats, meanwhile, kill a further 53 million.
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Stick insects may be using birds to disperse their eggs, just as plant do.
With electricity bills becoming more complicated, it’s increasingly difficult for customers to know if they are getting a good deal.
The news media routinely ‘beats up’ shark stories in search of clicks and profits, according to focus groups and surveys of social media posts.
We rely on climate data to help us make important decisions for our future, such as building infrastructure. But what if a region’s climate has long been more volatile than we realised?
The latest annual survey from the Lowy Institute shows that 59% of Australians support strong climate action, and 84% want the government to embrace renewable energy even if it’s more expensive.
The new Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council aims to overcome a management problem faced by many traditional owners: the fact that major rivers flow through lands home to many different groups and languages.
Waste byproducts from rice and glass combined with fungus can create a construction material with the potential to save lives and the planet.
Puppies and kittens are born without teeth, but by around two months of age they have a full set of baby teeth.
More logging will occur in NSW if conservation areas are rezoned by the state government.
Australia’s business-as-usual plan will not be enough to achieve our 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
The work honey bees do is critical for our ecosystems, but it comes at a high personal cost.
For decades, China and India have clashed over their disputed Himalayan border. This clash is also playing out via a development boom that threatens the health of one of the world’s biggest river catchments.
Wollemi pines have survived for hundreds of millions of years. Once covering Australia, they now survive in a few isolated spots – but they’re coming back in a big way.
A government proposal for weather radars to share frequencies with telecommunications providers has prompted fears for the accuracy of the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather radar.
A new study shows that workers exposed to solvents in the vehicle collision repair industry are at greater risk of adverse health effects than other blue-collar workers.
What will Antarctica look like in 2070? Will the icy wilderness we know today survive, or will it succumb to climate change and human pressure? Our choices over the coming decade will seal its fate.
Since 1995, several ice shelves off the Antarctic Peninsula have abruptly disintegrated. A new analysis suggests that these events are triggered when ice shelves lose their buffer of floating ice.
The poisoning of dozens of wedge-tailed hawks in Victoria could affect the entire wild population.
Households that are most likely to go solar are those that can afford solar panels, but aren’t so rich that they don’t have to worry about their electricity bill at all, says a survey of 8,000 homes.
Brumbies have a devoted following among high country locals, despite the fact that they were despised by colonial settler farmers. Their mythical status today owes a lot to cultural figures such as Banjo Paterson.
New research has suggested a fresh way to account for greenhouse gases with different lifetimes in the atmosphere.
For decades, state and federal governments have shed environmental budgets and staff. Now it’s up to volunteers to fill the gap.
Southern Australia’s debate may be exacerbated by climate change, but it’s not that simple.
Forty years of continuous end-of-summer snowline monitoring of New Zealand’s glaciers brings the issue of human-induced climate change into tight focus.