UN scientific advisors have recommended the Great Barrier Reef not be placed on a list of world heritage sites “in danger” but stressed the planet’s…
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‘You’re seeing the pain’: extreme explorer Geoff Wilson’s epic journey for the planet
Geoff Wilson has spent much of his adult life exploring the planet. He has completed the only wind-assisted crossing of the Sahara and the fastest…
View More ‘You’re seeing the pain’: extreme explorer Geoff Wilson’s epic journey for the planet‘Coastal squeeze’: the fight to save shoreline habitats from rising tides
The rain has just stopped falling when Nigel George walks down to the beach in Sandown Bay on the Isle of Wight. He crosses the…
View More ‘Coastal squeeze’: the fight to save shoreline habitats from rising tidesRevealed: Documents detail key players behind vast Australian fossil fuel expansion
In early 2022, the lobbying firm Dragoman met its client, the Northern Territory government, to discuss how to convince the federal government to support a…
View More Revealed: Documents detail key players behind vast Australian fossil fuel expansion‘Mega Chonk’: palaeontologists find fossil from largest skink – the size of a human arm
A skink as big as a human arm has been comically dubbed the Mega Chonk after its bones were found alongside other blasts from the…
View More ‘Mega Chonk’: palaeontologists find fossil from largest skink – the size of a human armAustralian scientists create new class of titanium alloys
Scientists have created a new class of titanium alloys using laser 3D printing, which they say could improve the sustainability of the titanium industry and…
View More Australian scientists create new class of titanium alloysGlobal heating has likely made El Niños and La Niñas more ‘frequent and extreme’, new study shows
Global heating has likely intensified a climate pattern in the Pacific since the 1960s that has driven extreme droughts, floods and heatwaves around the globe,…
View More Global heating has likely made El Niños and La Niñas more ‘frequent and extreme’, new study showsBlood test for sleepy drivers could pave way for prosecutions
A blood test to measure whether a driver who has caused an accident was impaired by lack of sleep could be available within two years,…
View More Blood test for sleepy drivers could pave way for prosecutionsThe science of standup: can you train someone to be funny?
Five scientists walk into a theatre and try standup for the first time. Does hilarity ensue? Yes, according to the producers of the Steam Room…
View More The science of standup: can you train someone to be funny?Labor agrees to absolute cap on emissions to secure Greens backing for safeguard mechanism climate bill
The Albanese government’s signature climate bill targeting big polluters is a step closer to passing after a deal with the Greens including an absolute cap…
View More Labor agrees to absolute cap on emissions to secure Greens backing for safeguard mechanism climate bill