Science & Environment

It’s a method of extracting gas from water held in coal seams deep underground, and its about to spark a...

Commonwealth Attorney General Robert McClelland opened the annual bush fire season briefing today in Victoria. The briefing, which will be...

What should Australia be like in forty years time? That’s the question pitched to three Australians at a forum ‘Imagining...

Plans to build nine dams on the main stretch of the Mekong River in Laos have outraged environmentalists and humanitarian...

Malaria – a disease spread by mosquitoes in many parts of the world – claims almost one million lives every...

Lack of biodiversity is causing serious health problems in the Pacific area. Crop specialists are trying to preserve the indigenous...

After 10 years of drought, one hundred percent of New South Wales has finally been declared drought free. In this...

Many cultures have myths and legends about little people such as the leprechauns of Ireland and the elves and pixies...

As commuters were rushing to work this morning, Greenpeace activists scaled the outside of an ANZ bank in Brisbane’s CBD...

From the Murray-Darling Basin plan to the Federal Government’s climate change committee, the question of how to deal with global...