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Traditional leaders and indigenous community members including Dennis Tipakalippa, far right, along with EDO Senior Solicitor Jordina Rust, second from left, celebrate their court victory. Image courtesy of Rebecca Parker.

Indigenous leader’s court win halts one of Australia’s ‘dirtiest gas projects’

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022

‘Amped-up citizen science’ to save the world: Q&A with Conservation AI Hub’s Grant Hamilton

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2022
The flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)

In a hotter, drier climate, how serious is fire risk to island seabirds?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Aug 2022
Hawksbill turtle

Turtle DNA database traces illegal shell trade to poaching hotspots

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jul 2022
Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera)

Scientists strive to restore world’s embattled kelp forests

Elizabeth Devitt 6 Jul 2022

We’re winning with climate activism, ‘just not fast enough,’ says Goldman Prize winner Julien Vincent (commentary)

Julien Vincent 24 Jun 2022

New near-real-time tool reveals Earth’s land cover in more detail than ever before

Carolyn Cowan 9 Jun 2022
Dr Marco Hatch at one of his study sites. Image courtesy of Dr Marco Hatch.

Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch

Spoorthy Raman 1 Jun 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022
Katherine Moseby and Leanne Van der Wyde releasing a bettong after measuring its physical traits.

Release the cats: Training native species to fear invasive predators

Hannah Thomasy 13 May 2022
Elder Donny Abdullah in yellow hi-vis and ranger Kenny Spratt

‘Bring back burning culture’ to save seabirds: Q&A with Wudjari ranger Jennell Reynolds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 May 2022

NGOs block gillnet fishing across 100,000 sq km of Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Mar 2022

The Great Barrier Reef is bleaching — once again — and over a larger area

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Mar 2022

‘They’re going to get worse and worse’: Marine heat wave persists off Sydney

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Feb 2022

As Australia faces new fire reality, forest restoration tactics reevaluated

Grace Dungey 14 Feb 2022

Australia’s rainforest species gain ground through landscape linkages

Amanda Freeman 24 Dec 2021

First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra

Nick Rodway 14 Dec 2021

For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners

Basten Gokkon 17 Sep 2021
Atoll

The first complete map of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs is here

Carolyn Cowan 8 Sep 2021

‘Carving up my country’: Land clearing reignites fracking debate in Western Australia

Nick Rodway 25 Aug 2021

New species of “killer tobacco” found at Australian truck stop

Liz Kimbrough 11 Aug 2021
A dugong (Dugong dugong) feeding on seagrass in Egypt. Image by Julien Willem via Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Seagrass-grazing dugongs and green sea turtles supercharge the seeds they eat

Carolyn Cowan 11 Aug 2021

Great Barrier Reef in danger: Don’t fight the diagnosis, fight the threats (commentary)

John Tanzer 21 Jul 2021
Satellite image of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Image credit: Maxar Technologies

New Australian marine parks protect area twice Great Barrier Reef’s size

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021

Australia’s pivot to plantations may be too late for nearly extinct parrots

Nick Rodway 5 Apr 2021

Male superb lyrebirds found to trick females into mating via masterful mimicry

Romi Castagnino 5 Mar 2021
Thylacines, male and female in the National Zoo Washington D.C.

Study suggests the Tasmanian tiger survived into the 21st century

James Fair 4 Feb 2021

Current protected areas not enough to save parrots from extinction: Study

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2021

One year on: Insects still in peril as world struggles with global pandemic

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2020

The crypto-creature from the deep: Researchers get rare video of bigfin squid

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Nov 2020
A white salt inflorescence along the edge of a salinised wetland in a drought stressed Australian wetland. Photo by Luke Mosley.

For global wetlands, intensifying droughts pose a ‘diabolical’ threat

Liz Kimbrough 30 Oct 2020

Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Oct 2020

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