Robot farms – delight or disaster?

As agriculture heads down the path of increased automation, an international researcher argues robots on farms could create both an ideal, eco-friendly farming culture or an environmentally disastrous scenario where big machines push humans and wildlife alike off agricultural land.

Every spot of green counts

Even the humble roadside verge plays an important role in the environment and for our health, according to an Australian and international study of parks and gardens.

Mapping global pesticide pollution

A global map of agricultural land across 168 countries has revealed that 64 percent of land used for agriculture and food crops is at risk of pesticide pollution.

Nature is a public good

As the health of Australia’s environment continues to decline, the federal government is wagering on the ability of private markets to help solve the problem. So is this a wise move? The evidence is not at all encouraging.

Protecting Melbourne’s ‘green wedges’

The natural areas of Melbourne are under increasing threat despite growing evidence of their importance for people as well as wildlife.

Back from the dead

Museum genomics reveal a mouse thought to have been extinct for over 160 years has been living under a different name this whole time.

Sing in your chains like the sea

The use of submerged cages may be the answer the aquaculture industry is looking for, a new Griffith University-led review has found.

A voyage through our changing ocean

Scientists have studied the impacts of a warmer, stronger East Australian Current on marine life during a voyage along the east coast.

Why it’s ok to feed the birds

Feeding the birds is encouraged in Britain and across the northern hemisphere, yet Australian authorities frown on the practice for no good reason. Feeding birds in the right ways can help strengthen our connections with the natural world in our ever more urbanised cities.

Crocodile country

A new species of large prehistoric crocodile that roamed south-east Queensland’s waterways millions of years ago has been documented by University of Queensland researchers.

The cost of everything and the value of nothing

Oscar Wilde defined cynics as those who “know the price of everything and the value of nothing” but the cynical destruction of our vital eco-systems might be slowed by putting a financial value on their retention.

Meet Australia’s largest dinosaur

What’s as long a basketball court, taller than a giant truck and has just stomped into the record books as Australia’s largest dinosaur?