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Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How can we make nature’s wellbeing impossible to ignore? For Natalie Kyriacou, it is the defining challenge

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2025
A whale shark near Ningaloo Reef off western Australia.

Whale shark hotspot discovered along the Great Barrier Reef

Edward Carver 19 Aug 2025
Sulfur-crested cockatoos. Image by Sardaka via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cockatoos have at least 30 impressive dance moves: Study

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2025
Leopard shark. Photo by Alex Kydd.

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025
Ed McNabb. Image courtesy of the Australia Wildlife Sound Recording Group (AWSRG).

Edward McNabb, pioneer of conservation bioacoustics died on May 7, aged 81

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Aug 2025
Banner image: (L-R) the eastern kultarr (image by Pat Woolley), the gibber kultarr and the long-eared kultarr (images by Ken Johnson).

Small Australian carnivorous marsupial reclassified as 3 species: Study

Kristine Sabillo 17 Jul 2025
Australia's iconic Bogong moths migrate twice a year guided by stars and the Milky Way. Image courtesy of Ajay Narendra, Macquarie University.

Bogong moths use stars and the Milky Way to make epic migration

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Jul 2025
Banner image of a humpback whale breaching in Iceland, by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia’s humpback highway

Associated Press 27 Jun 2025
The Nyamugasani River flows through the flood plains in the foothills of Rwenzori Mountains National Park, one of the sites supported by the CAPA initiative.

To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning

Marina Martinez 13 Jun 2025
M Marika. Courtesy of the Rirratjiŋu Aboriginal Corporation

M Marika, custodian of Yolŋu land and culture, died on June 4th, aged 64

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2025
Emergency workers wading through floodwaters as they prepare inflatable boats to effect rescues near Taree, Australia, Thursday, May 22, 2025. (NSW Police via AP)

Australia to see more intense rains as climate change worsens, analysis shows

Kristine Sabillo 6 Jun 2025
Nontoxic dye released from an artificial upwelling experiment off the Canary Islands. That experiment, set to last weeks, ended after just one day when the pump failed. “To most of us that proved … the technical readiness of this approach is not there,” says Michael Sswat, a postdoctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, who was part of the research team.

Marine artificial upwelling, problematic climate solution slow to advance

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2025
A scientist studying coral reefs in Virgin Islands National Park on the island of St. John, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Image by the U.S. National Park Service Climate Change Response Program via Flickr. (Public domain).

Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study

Edward Carver 26 May 2025
Banner image floodwaters moving through Queensland by Bureau of Meteorology via Facebook.

Floods devastate normally arid parts of Australia’s Queensland

Kristine Sabillo 3 Apr 2025
Banner image of a pair of Baudin's black-cockatoo by dbmcc09 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Australia’s environment minister sued for failure to act on threatened species

Kristine Sabillo 31 Mar 2025
A wombat in Queensland, Australia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

As Australia’s ‘nature positive’ plans ring hollow, how will other nations respond?

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Mar 2025
Banner image of people on a Sydney beach on a hot summer day. Image by Neerav Bhatt via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Hotter weather threatens heart health, Australian study warns

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Mar 2025
Banner image of a housing estate in Australia by Calistemon via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Housing affordability through sustainability? Mongabay podcast explores

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2025

A new dawn for night parrots (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 18 Mar 2025
Banner image of damaged causeway after Cyclone Alfred, by Aliceinthealice via Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

Australia faces inflation, agriculture losses after Cyclone Alfred

Kristine Sabillo 18 Mar 2025
Winners of 2025 Future For Nature Awards. From left— Anthony Waddle, image by Yorick Lambreghts, Ruthmery Pillco, image by Eleanor Flatt, Kumar Paudel, image courtesy of Paudel.

Future for Nature Award 2025 winners conserve frogs, pangolins, dwarf deer

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2025
Banner image of Cyclone Alfred as it nears the Australian coast, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Flash floods, blackouts and a ‘sharknado’ as Cyclone Alfred lashes Australia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Mar 2025
Black flying foxes are found in the forests of the Kimberley region of northern Australia. Image by Andrew Mercer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Australia’s little-known rainforests, tradition and science collaborate for good

Nick Rodway 28 Feb 2025
A koala is pictured in The Great Koala National Park, NSW. Koala populations are being pushed towards extinction due to habitat loss and fragmentation, inappropriate fire regimes, climate change impacts, disease and feral dogs and cats. Many of the populations in New South Wales and Queensland are now in decline. Image courtesy of Paul Hilton / Earth Tree Images

An Australian state promised to turn native forest into a national koala park. It’s still being logged

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Feb 2025

Thermal drones detect rare tree kangaroos in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2025

Researchers eye marsupial recovery with first IVF kangaroo embryo

Bobby Bascomb 19 Feb 2025
Banner image of a brush-tailed rock wallaby by Donald Hobern via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY2.0).

Australian bushfires leave wildlife facing increased predator risk, decades of recovery

Kristine Sabillo 18 Feb 2025
Banner image: Satellite image of Japan on Feb. 11 via Himawari Satellite, CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA.

Japan sees record snowfall as Australia braces for cyclone Zelia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of the recent bushfires in Victoria, courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory.

Australia reeling from floods in the north, bushfires in the south

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of Tropical Cyclone Sean over Australia, courtesy of NASA.

Historic Arctic freeze for US South and record rain in Western Australia

Kristine Sabillo 22 Jan 2025

A venomous Australian spider turns out to be 3 species, not 1

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2025

Turn problems into solutions for culture and agriculture across Australia and the Americas, Anthony James says

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Jan 2025

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