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Noisy reefs help young fish find their home

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 May 2018

Australia to invest $379 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef

Mongabay.com 3 May 2018

Conservation Effectiveness series sparks action, dialogue

Shreya Dasgupta, Zuzana Burivalova 23 Apr 2018

Vine-like lianas alter the edges of fragmented forests: New study

John Cannon 6 Apr 2018

You don’t need a bigger boat: AI buoys safeguard swimmers and sharks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Apr 2018
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), native to southern Australia’s coastal waters. Photo by Katieleeosborne via Wikimedia Commons.

Australia opens vast swaths of famed marine parks to fishing

Mic Smith 29 Mar 2018

New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

DJ and ornithologists create wildlife music game

Erik Hoffner 21 Feb 2018

Coral reef monitoring takes to the skies: drone-mounted hyperspectral cameras help scientists assess health of coral reefs

Colleen O'Brien 19 Feb 2018

Webs under water: The really bizarre lives of intertidal spiders

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Feb 2018

Drones enable fast, accurate wildlife counts, study shows

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Feb 2018

New population of extremely rare ‘red handfish’ discovered off Tasmania

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2018

Tree-dwelling animals can ‘climb’ away from climate change, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Feb 2018

For Australia’s fire-starting falcons, pyromania serves up the prey

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2018

As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

Reef bleaching five times more frequent now than in the 1980s, study finds

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018

The world’s newest great ape, revealed a month ago, is already nearly extinct: IUCN

Basten Gokkon 7 Dec 2017

COP23: U.S., wealthy nations curtail climate aid for developing world

Justin Catanoso 16 Nov 2017

Trending tree cover loss spikes again in Queensland

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2017
Coral flourescing, a reaction to stressful conditions

Capturing the wonder and vulnerability of coral reefs in real-time: Q & A with the director of “Chasing Coral”

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Sep 2017

Meet the new giant sunfish that has evaded scientists for centuries

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2017

Australian spider named for world champion surfer

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jun 2017

Thylacine survey: Are we going to rediscover the ‘moonlight tiger’?

Jeremy Hance 26 May 2017

50 new spiders discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 12 May 2017

The meat hook: satiating Asia’s demand for beef

Maxine Chen 27 Apr 2017

Meet the winners of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Apr 2017

Catching up to the Ruby Seadragon: new species raises new questions

Jacqueline Hernandez 20 Mar 2017

Drones and artificial intelligence image processing improving the ‘koality’ of wildlife monitoring

Lalini Pedris 16 Mar 2017

Climate change-induced bleaching decimating Great Barrier Reef

John Cannon 15 Mar 2017

Breakthrough boosts hope for treating contagious cancer in Tasmanian devils

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Mar 2017

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