Underground ‘rave’ a sign soil is happy
Barely audible to human ears, healthy soils produce a cacophony of sounds in many forms – a bit like an underground rave concert of bubbles and […]
Planting trees the ‘right way’
Large-scale global efforts to replace trees for carbon capture and urban greening may be doing more harm than good if they neglect to restore viable ecosystems, […]
When climate changes affect mating games
Being wary of taking gifts from strange males takes on a new meaning among a South American spider species known to woo females with silk-wrapped food […]
How rainforest fish adapt to habitat
The future of freshwater fish species in Australia’s tropical rainforest areas, including the Daintree and Mosman Gorge, will increasingly be subject to the vagaries of climatic […]
Repairing nature with DNA – and drones
The monumental global task to restore degraded ecosystems will need to include sophisticated technologies such as environmental DNA monitoring to understand and support the recovery of […]
Sizing up rodent mating evolution
A new study has found the distribution of females in 33 species of Australian rodents affects the evolution of testes size of males in these social […]
Parasites thrive if hosts survive
Like diseases affecting humans, parasites can wage a deadly evolutionary ‘arms race’ against their hosts. But can hosts and parasites upgrade their weapons at the same […]
Heated debate on lizard sex
Sex is a complicated affair for Australia’s Jacky Dragon lizard. When an embryo is developing, one of the most important events is when it becomes either […]
Townsville dolphins monitoring for conservation
Initial data from a monitoring project to help preserve two dolphin species has found almost 250 healthy individuals in stable populations near Townsville. Led by Flinders […]