We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and possibly distressing. Groundbreaking modelling has revealed that as many as 220,000 Indigenous Australians died […]
Diarrhoea remains one of the most serious health threats to young children in the Global South, and new research shows that climate change is set to […]
Over the past 100,000 years, Australia and New Guinea’s large animal communities have been disrupted by extinctions and invasive species, altering entire ecosystems and threatening the […]
What is the impact of climate change in your country? Global ecologist Professor Corey Bradshaw suggests countries with rising populations and weaker economies are the most […]
As coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts are re-evaluating the benefits of restoration missions to reverse damage and protect some of the world’s […]
The patterns of dispersal of early humans across continents and islands are hotly debated, but researchers have modelled that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of […]
Koala populations have been decimated by bushfires in recent years – and researchers are forecasting that bushfires will threaten them and their habitat even more in […]
New research showing high infant mortality rates are contributing to an incessant rise of the global human population supports arguments for greater access to contraception and […]
Flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin is creating ideal breeding conditions for many native species that have evolved to take advantage of the temporary conditions. Australian scientists […]