Peter de Kruijff

Last year eclipsed predicted temperatures. Now a new study suggests the extra warming occurred when the Earth became less reflective due to a drop in low cloud cover.

New modelling reveals some outer reefs will stay 1 degree Celsius cooler than surrounding areas in coming decades — but it's not clear how their coral colonies will fare.

The origin of the strange clearing, which is still visible today, was detected by a scientist trawling through satellite data.

Researchers have calculated the greenhouse gas impact for a single knee replacement in a Melbourne hospital is equivalent to a 914-kilometre car trip.

The largest survey of Australia's freshwater fish suggests about one third should be listed as threatened species.

Areas that had multiple fires prior to 2019–20 had greater biodiversity losses when Black Summer fires hit compared to areas that had burnt once or not at all beforehand.

Scientists behind a study of carbon dioxide within bubbles from Antarctic ice cores want policymakers to adopt an earlier baseline for global warming.

For the first time, demographers have calculated how many Australians move each year because of climate disasters such as fire, floods and cyclones. They say the figure is likely to be an underestimate.

Flowers can be pollinated in a multitude of ways, and now a series of studies is showing just how big a role rats and mice play when it comes to Australian flora.

An Australian minerals company wants to clear about 1,000 hectares of threatened native banksia woodlands for two WA mining projects.  

A program designed to offset development damage to critical habitats in Australia's iron mining heartland is being likened to "swiping a credit card" without conservation actions.

New laws have stripped WA's environmental watchdog of its power to consider carbon emissions when approving high-polluting projects. So is the EPA now a toothless tiger?

A long stretch of the Murray River and the massive Macquarie Marshes wetland in NSW could soon be designated "threatened ecological communities" by the federal government. Here's what that means.

A study of scenarios where the world temporarily exceeds 1.5C of warming raises concerns for effects that may not be reversible for decades — or longer.

Western science has long debated when the towering pillars of the Pinnacles came to be. A new study suggests most of the spires formed when a particularly wet period dissolved the surrounding rock.

Imagine wading in the shallows at the beach and tasting mussels and clams hidden under the sand — with your feet. A new study shows fish species evolved to do just that.

Emus might look ungainly when they pick up pace, but they’re actually very efficient runners, a new study suggests.

Around half of the nation's total known night parrots live in a patch of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. While dingoes appear to protect them, the potential effects of a proposed road are less clear.

A strange signal that shook the planet in September last year has been traced back to a tsunami from a melting glacier in the Arctic. And it may happen again.

We examined approved and proposed projects under federal environment legislation to look at how much koala habitat is being slated for destruction across several industries.

An earth-shaking experiment links the same principles found in your barbecue lighter to the creation of gold nuggets.

They may seem like just a beautiful blue bird, but under the surface the social dynamics of the splendid fairy-wren is anything but simple. 

Neighbourhood lights can disrupt the lives of animals that are active during the day or night, but there are steps you can take to help them out.

One of Australia's biggest gas projects is at risk of being rejected by Western Australia's environmental watchdog.

The world's largest iron ore deposits in the Pilbara reached mining-level quality up to 1.4 billion years ago, a new study suggests.