Science & Environment

The last several years have seen a series of serious environmental problems in Australia, from coral bleaching to mangrove die-offs....

Ancestry websites are used by people around the world to discover their heritage and build their family tree. These sites also...

A new report by the Grattan Institute has found wholesale electricity prices have jumped from $50 per megawatt an hour...

Australia has said it will block a move by Japan to lift the international moratorium on commercial whaling. In place...

There are concerns the integrity of Australian universities and research institutes may be affected by changes to the code of...

A Senate committee has endorsed the legalisation of ‘three-person IVF’ as a prevention for mitochondrial disease. The procedure replaces a...

A senate inquiry into recycling has recommended all single-use plastics including coffee cups be banned within five years, by 2023,...

It is a rare to get back land for a precious ecological wetland area, and even rarer to have the...

A six year drought has seen farmers sell and slaughter cattle due to severe shortages of feed and water across...

Humanity’s actions towards curbing climate change will decide Antarctica’s future, and this frozen land’s resulting changes will decide what will...