Society is relying on its universities and medical research institutes to develop vaccines, tests and public health measures to combat COVID-19.

After the bushfires, donations flooded in for our iconic mammals. But there’s a risk the government and public responses will not see the fish for the koalas.

New South Wales’ Forestry Corporation will this week start “selective timber harvesting” from two state forests ravaged by bushfire on the state’s south coast.

Will Steffen says that adopting a target of net-zero emissions by 2050 is a big step in the right direction, but the policy is too little, too late.

How far away we are from harnessing the energy that powers the sun and stars?

Universities are key to meeting our climate change challenge

Populations of wildlife that the bushfires haven't already wiped out are threatened by thousands of feral horses trampling the land.

The nature of our fires is changing rapidly, and the adaptation of our plants and animals won't be able to keep pace.

Australian scientists warned the country could face a climate change-driven bushfire crisis by 2020. It arrived on schedule.