City gardens often don’t have the right types of food and homes for native bees and flies, with knock-on effects for our gardens and for biodiversity. Urban ecologist Katherine Berthon from RMIT University found that only 43% of flowers in the Melbourne city gardens she studied were being used by bees and other pollinating insects.
Animals play critical roles in ecosystems, but they are broadly overlooked in assessments of mine site restoration success says Sophie
A new land management tool using Aboriginal knowledge Ngan’gi speakers know it’s time to look for freshwater crocodile eggs when the red kapok trees near the Northern Territory’s Daly River burst into flower. This can occur at a different time each year, but the environmental link is solid. A Darwin-based scientist has converted this link […]
This year, thanks to funding from the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science, Research and Tertiary Education through the Inspiring Australia initiative, and partners in other states, we’ve expanded the program to include state finals in: Queensland, supported by the University of Queensland; Victoria, supported by Scienceworks; New South Wales, supported by ANSTO and; South Australia […]
Some of 63 Unlocking Australia’s Potential science communication grants totalling $5 million announced today by the Minister for Science and
A total of $5 million has been awarded across three levels of grant categories, small, medium and large, for projects
Is that angry bird Australian, art and science combine to explain free radicals and more.
Farming in the desert, hi-tech “QR Codes” to be placed on walking trail and more.
New technology for cleaning up nuclear spills, kids wearing the wrong seatbelts and re-writing the textbook on muscles and are
