Crystal ball climate change
FEATURE: The Pentagon recently advised the US government that the biggest threat to America was climate change, not terrorism! With general consensus that the planet is getting hotter, the question has...
View ArticleGreenhouse Gas Grave
SCIENCE FEATURE: Is burying hundreds of tonnes of carbon dioxide underground a novel way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or a large-scale attempt at sweeping them under the rug?
View ArticleThe indestructibles
FEATURE: A convenient carrier or a marine killer? Why bags should no longer be tossed out with the garbage.
View ArticleRecycling Reality
Ever wondered what good you're actually doing as a kerbside recycler? You've been filling up your recycling crates with the detritus of a modern consumption lifestyle, but are your efforts making a...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Slowdown
FEATURE: The renewable energy industry in Australia is in a 'holding pattern' and needs a kick start, according to experts in the field.
View ArticleDust in our veins
PHOTO GALLERY: As a dusty haze spreads across eastern Australia we take a look at dust storms across the world, and what scientists are doing to control them.
View ArticleIron ore country
SCIENCE FEATURE: Australia's economy rides on the red rocks of the Pilbara, but scientists predict we may run out of high quality exportable iron ore within 50 years.
View ArticlePeak phosphorus fuels food fears
SCIENCE FEATURE: Phosphate fertilises our crops. But as the global population increases and rock phosphate reserves run out, the race is on to reduce our use or find alternative sources of phosphorus.
View ArticleConserving Australia's wild beauty
PHOTO GALLERY: Take a trip around some outstanding natural areas in these beautiful photos from Bush Heritage, a national non-profit organisation that preserves Australia's unique bush by buying high...
View ArticleScientists measure human 'water footprint'
THIRSTY PLANET: Humanity uses around 9,089 billion cubic metres of water a year, mostly for agriculture, according to a new study.
View ArticleFire-free farming in pre-Columbian Amazon
AMAZON FARMING: Farming without fire in tropical regions, like indigenous populations did before 1492, may be the key to both feeding people and managing land more sustainably, according to new research.
View ArticleScientists issue Antarctic warning
ANTARCTIC WARNING: Policy-makers need to be more responsive to increasing pressures on Antarctica's environment, say an eminent team of scientific experts.
View ArticleSoil fungi may not be effective carbon sink
CARBON BALANCE: Soil fungi may not be as effective at storing carbon and mitigating the effects of climate change as some scientists had hoped.
View ArticlePalm oil biodiversity 'can be saved'
PALM OIL BIODIVERSITY: The surprising biodiversity that remains in oil palm plantations can and should be protected, say researchers.
View ArticlePlanting forests may help overheated reefs
RIVER RUN-OFF: Any benefit tropical reefs gain from reduced sediment loads caused by a drier climate will be offset by increased sedimentation due to deforestation, Australian scientists have found.
View ArticleWilderness areas 'need humans to thrive'
CARING FOR COUNTRY: More people, not less, are needed in wilderness areas to stop species extinctions, an international conservation meeting is set to hear.
View ArticleAboriginal burning boosts lizard numbers
PATCH BURNING: The Australian Aboriginal practice of using fire to hunt sand goannas increases rather than reduces the numbers of this important species, a new study has found.
View ArticleGood planning maintains biodiversity on farms
OPINION: Farming and native biodiversity are not mutually exclusive. Landscape planning is one approach that lets the two land uses coexist, explains Sue McIntyre.
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