21 July 2023
Over 99 per cent of green turtles born on beaches in the northern Great Barrier Reef are now female due to nest overheating, but cooling their nests with seawater may help to rebalance the sex ratio
12 October 2022
A little-known species of penguin only has the resources to raise one offspring, but an evolutionary quirk means they focus their investment on the second egg
29 April 2020
Over half the world’s wild tigers now live 5 kilometres from a road, and infrastructure projects planned in Asia could fragment their habitat further
20 September 2018
It may be possible to restore damaged parts of the Great Barrier Reef by electrically stimulating coral fragments grown on underwater metal frames
18 April 2018
The reef has been so severely damaged by record ocean heat that it has had no chance to recover fully - and may never be the same again.
23 January 2018
The Australian government has pledged millions of dollars in extra funding to protect the Great Barrier Reef, but none of it will go to tackling the biggest threat
28 November 2017
Most of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may well be destroyed in the next few decades, but hubs of resilient coral could make larvae to restore it all
7 November 2017
If we all abandoned traditional burials and instead were buried in nature reserves, the money raised could help preserve every endangered species on land
22 September 2017
A major project is underway to protect Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from being smothered and poisoned by agricultural runoff
24 July 2017
Fishing operations will be rolled out in Australia’s protected marine areas, in a move that could endanger fragile ecosystems
