1 May 2024

April has been a bad month for the Australian environment. The Great Barrier Reef was hit, yet again, by intense coral bleaching.

1 May 2024

So how much land is needed to fully decarbonise energy in Australia? When we switch completely to solar and wind, do we have the space for all the panels,...

26 Apr 2024

In a new paper, we looked carefully at the body of evidence on the natural pre-invasion state of Australian forests, such as those dominated by majestic...

24 Apr 2024

As humans, our greatest evolutionary advantage has always been our ability to adapt and innovate. When people first reached the expanded coastline of Southeast...

15 Apr 2024

ANU researcher Dr Georgy Falster's recent findings on naturally occurring "mega droughts", while alarming, are important as they give us...

3 Apr 2024

Much of Australia is drought-prone, and the risk is expected to increase as global warming continues. That’s why it’s important for Australia to be prepared...

27 Mar 2024

Forest regeneration projects that have received tens of millions of carbon credits and dominate Australia’s carbon offset scheme have had negligible impact on...

21 Mar 2024

Seismic waves from a 2010 earthquake more than 600 km under Spain were the clues leading to an unexpected discovery of a subducted oceanic plate that had...

21 Mar 2024

2023 was a “year of opposites” for Australia’s environment, but despite conditions fluctuating between wet and dry, overall conditions remain stable following...

21 Mar 2024

Australia’s top economists are pressing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese not to ape US President Joe Biden’s “think big” approach to clean energy.

28 Feb 2024

A powerful tool for the renewable energy future transition is to build more pumped hydro energy storage.

19 Feb 2024

Big environmental changes mean ever more Australians will confront the tough choice of whether to move home or risk staying put.