Animals & Plants

Wild relatives recruited to improve chickpea chilling tolerance

SeedQuest, Other, 07/12/2023 Increasing chickpea production in Australia requires enhancing chilling tolerance in the species through the exploration of greater […]

What beaches can teach us: learning while exploring

Heading out to explore beaches and seashores? There is so much to learn from observing our coastlines. Here is some […]

CSIRO targets invasive weeds with natural enemies

Canberra Times, Other, 26/11/2023, Liv Casben Jon Falkenmire spent his final years trying to clear African boxthorn from his Manilla […]

Researchers believe thousands of spiders in Australia have not yet been identified and scientifically named

ABC Online, Other, 14/11/2023, Peter Quattrocelli Scientists believe there might be as many as 15,000 different species of spiders in […]

Indigenous rangers team up with scientists for project SpaceCows, the next frontier in feral pest control

ABC Online, Other, 19/11/2023, Kristy O'Brien "SpaceCows" sounds like a sci-fi film where the bovines start to turn on the […]

Cod Rush! An edited extract from the CSIRO Publishing book, The Life and Times of the Murray Cod

In his book, The Life and Times of the Murray Cod, river ecologist Paul Humphries reveals the many roles this iconic […]

Safer, more effective African swine fever vaccine to be developed in Australia

Cosmos Magazine, Other, 11/11/2023, Evrim Yazgin Scientists from Australia and the US are evaluating what appears to be a safe […]

Rare white platypus in Gwydir River near Armidale is leucistic, researchers find

ABC Online, Other, 03/11/2023, James Paras University of New England researchers were looking for turtles in a northern NSW river […]

Experts celebrate enormous bounds in reef restoration

Canberra Times, Other, 26/10/2023, Tracey Ferrier Australian experts have developed a new survival toolkit that will allow millions of heat-tolerant […]