The Ghan, Indian Pacific and Great Southern are built for travellers who understand this. They’re three of the world’s truly ...

Globally, peatland fires are generally viewed as an environmental danger. In Indonesia, for example, authorities this year ...

Scientists across the globe are working to bring extinct species back to life. But do the facts measure up, or is this still ...

A celebration of how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live among us can be.

Despite a fearsome reputation in other parts of the world, scorpions in Australia are relatively harmless and come in a surprising variety of sizes and colours. From rainforests to deserts, the ...

It might surprise you to find out which vertebrate (creature with a spine) is the most abundant on earth. All life exists in the biosphere. We’ve found life 64km above sea level and 19km underground.

How can drones help Australia fight bushfires? And what are the obstacles to be overcome before it becomes reality? Picture this. It’s a summer evening in Australia. A dry lightning storm is about to ...

This rebellious little monotreme has evolved one of the strangest collections of traits in the animal kingdom. It swims, it lays eggs, it produces milk. It hunts using electroreception. It also has ...

John Walker was a young man by the time he saw his first whale. It sounds incongruous as he sits speaking on the front verandah of his home in Eden, the southernmost town of coastal NSW, looking ...

In 2024 we were excited to launch the Australian Geographic Awards for Nature. This conservation funding program has significantly increased the Australian Geographic Society’s impact in tackling ...

The Tully saucer nest heralded the start of the worldwide phenomenon of the modern crop circle. On a foggy morning in January 1966, George Pedley, a banana farmer from Euramo, near Tully in far north ...

It’s described as the world’s longest-running marine cull – an almost century-long massive loss of aquatic life along Australia’s coastline linked to shark nets. First introduced during the 1930s and ...