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Australia’s coastal towns are already facing storms and erosion – problems that are set to get worse with rising seas.
Critics of Australia’s fuel tax credits system have pointed to its impact on the budget bottom line, but calculating that cost is far from straightforward.
Australians send about 4 million tonnes of food waste to landfill each year – but what if we could use it for other purposes?
Tick paralysis affect 10,000 dogs each year in eastern Australia, and the treatment can be very expensive. Fortunately, a new drug available is available.
Australia’s Great Northern Savannas are the largest and most intact ecosystem of their kind on Earth. But they still face pressure from grazing, mining and agricultural expansion.
Eradicating feral animals from islands can be expensive, but new research shows where to get the biggest bang for our buck.
Marine parks need to cover large swathes of ocean, but they also need to cover the right areas if they are to deliver the best conservation. New research off Australia’s northwest suggests how.
The first signs that humans were warming the climate appeared much earlier in the northern hemisphere - way back in the 1830s. But now the trend is emerging all over the globe.
Emerging research challenges the idea that sustainable housing is unaffordable. It shows sustainability and good design can be affordable when analyses include social, health and wellbeing benefits.
Atmospheric, marine, environmental, biological and medical scientists join in calling for more focus on the damage being wrought by climate change.
Central Italy has been hit by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake, only seven years after a similar devastating quake in the region.
If we accept that 2 degrees warming is dangerous this century, we have to accept it is dangerous beyond.
Climate change is happening faster than ecosystems can keep up with, so they’ll need a hand from us.
The recent meeting of Australia’s energy ministers had a major focus on gas in our power sector.
New Zealand’s economically driven approach to ecological decline risks entrenching environmental problems rather than solving them.
A recent shark licence buy-up in Australia is a great opportunity for fishers and conservation organisations to work together to maintain healthy ecosystems and fisheries.
Energy upgrades to Australia’s buildings could meet a quarter of our climate goals.
US involvement in the Paris Agreement depends on the president – so what happens when the president changes?
Two new studies have linked controversial pesticides neonicotinoides to wild bee and butterfly declines.
Scientists are calling for your help this National Science Week to identify Australian wildlife.
Many households in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria will lose their subsidies for solar power this year.
The South China Sea produces more than 10% of the world’s fish – but the catch is increasingly under threat.
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C already looks out of reach, so where do we go from here?
The ailing health of the Great Barrier Reef may be attracting more tourists, at least in the short term, with a survey showing many visitors were motivated to see it while they still have the chance.