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

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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.

It might surprise you to find out which vertebrate (creature with a spine) is the most abundant on earth. It might surprise you to find out which vertebrate (creature with a spine) is the most ...

Brought to you by Norfolk Island. Mid-year has a habit of arriving before you’re ready for it. The calendar fills and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can’t see them. You can’t feel them. You can’t touch them. But our universe is awash with millions of magnetic fields. An international team, led by Australian researchers at CSIRO and the SKA ...

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 ...

But an urgent concern is the potential for scavenger animals to spread H5N1 further by eating infected carcasses. The term carcass, which refers to the body of a dead animal, may make you queasy. But ...