Environment
Bayswater community works with architecture students to inject life back into suburb
The city of Bayswater has been 鈥渢reading water鈥� for nearly 25 years, according to Chair of Future Bayswater, Paul Shanahan.…
The brains behind Australia’s first groundwater replenishment scheme
Over the past 50 years, the rainfall in Western Australia鈥檚 southwest has decreased by nearly a fifth, prompting Perth to embark…
The carbon positive living lab: White Gum Valley
Australia鈥檚 signing of the Paris Agreement signifies the nation鈥檚 commitment to reducing the use of fossil fuels to combat climate…
Fire and flora: a relationship 100 million years strong
Living at this moment in geological time on our hot, dry continent, it would seem that fire is a natural…
Perth鈥檚 trapdoor spiders living on 鈥榖urrowed鈥� time
Australia is home to a plethora of plants and animals that are not found anywhere else on Earth, making the…
Malaysian discovery sheds new light on early Earth
Geologists from Curtin Malaysia have dated聽a grain of zircon at 4.2 billion years old, making it the second-oldest rock ever…
Researchers in focus: Professor Teri Balser
Congratulations to Professor Teri Balser, whose frontier-challenging leadership in teaching and research across microbiology and other environmental studies disciplines has…
Researchers in focus: Professor Kingsley Dixon
Congratulations to Professor Kingsley Dixon, whose discovery of the chemical in smoke that stimulates germination in Australian plant species has…
Ancient Arctic plant DNA unlocks climate change from the past
Trekking across the Arctic tundra and crossing ice-blue fjords, setting up camp in sub-zero temperatures and staying vigilant for polar…
Now you see us: how casting an eerie glow on fish can help count and conserve them
News stories about fish often focus either on large fish like sharks, or on tasty seafood. So it might come…