Earth is heading for another mass extinction – and human activity is to blame.

ANU fire and vegetation experts provide tips on maintaining a garden, while keeping your home safer from bushfires.

Alongside traditional kinds of expertise, “real time” expertise and leadership at the local scale will be invaluable in coming weeks and months.

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.

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

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.

Universities are key to meeting our climate change challenge