Biodiversity

Stand of trees with a water mark part way up the trunks

A long view of ecosystem health in the Murray-Darling Basin

New research has examined over 100 years of historical data on Murray-Darling Basin ecosystems to provide an indication of long-term trends in the Basin’s ecological condition.

Koala in between two branches of a tree

Farming carbon can be a win for wildlife, if the price is right

Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are two of the greatest environmental issues of our time. Is it possible to address both of those problems at once?

Close up of small fluffy yellow flowers

Five seasons in Australia? Meet sprinter and sprummer

It’s autumn – or so you may think. But did autumn really start on 1 March? And why do we observe four seasons, each exactly three months long?

A small moth with gold and metallic purple specks on its wings standing on a leaf

Small, beautiful, new and very old: meet the Enigma moth

We recently celebrated one of the most exciting discoveries in entomology in the last 40 years – the discovery of a new family of primitive moths. It was found right in our own backyard, on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.