'Calm waters' likely to elude embattled CSIRO chief
With the chief executive's contract still under a cloud is it time for him to go?
With the chief executive's contract still under a cloud is it time for him to go?
Big payout to BHP Billiton raises questions about viability of the other big coal mine in the region.
The Baird government will pay BHP Billiton about $220 million to buy back its licence.
A new coal mine planned for the NSW Southern Highlands would lose money on every tonne produced, two new reports say.
At the risk of provoking the spite of weather gods, let's call it: the worst of winter is over.
While the current land clearing laws are clearly failing in NSW it's far from clear their repeal will make things any better.
New Science Minister Greg Hunt has ordered a major u-turn in the direction of the CSIRO, reviving climate research as a bedrock function just months after the national science agency slashed climate staff and programs.
The illegal trade in tiger bone and skin is threatening these majestic creatures.
A clutch of around 200 rare Montserrat tarantulas have successfully hatched at a British zoo in what keepers hailed on Friday as a first in breeding such spiders.
Waiting for the sky to dance requires patience, luck and dogged determination.
The last chimpanzees in America still in federal custody should be moved to a sanctuary in Louisiana by autumn 2026, America's National Institutes of Health says.
Females astoundingly did not reach sexual maturation until they were at least 134 years old.
The Greenland shark can live to the age of 400, making it the world's longest-living vertebrate
Gridlocked roads might not seem the obvious place to build mini-power plants but one company has different ideas
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What or who was behind this outback murder-mystery?
Rain will be banished this week as a big high-pressure system sets in.
Scientists to release new Korean virus to control spread of rabbits.
Oil giant BP has its sights on drilling within a commonwealth marine reserve.
They have lived among us for close to 4000 years. You've likely seen scuttle solo over railway tracks. Or heard nighttime gnawing in your walls or ceiling. Most of the time, you don't even know they're there. And that's the way they like it.
Diana Eiszele was seven months pregnant with her first child when her mother died suddenly at age 62.
On current forecasts, maximum temperatures will struggle to rise above 17 degrees until Monday.
Farmers are revving up the bulldozers even before the state loosens land-clearing laws.
It sounds like the beginning of a Hollywood zombie thriller. But a bigger, less exciting horror film is also playing out as in Siberia.
New South Wales has been reminded that winter is here to stay, with heavy snow and flooding hitting the state's west, closing roads and leaving several dozen people stranded.
The popular breed has a litany of health problems - and so little genetic diversity that it's probably beyond saving.
A photographer who captured spectacular photos of orcas hunting humpback whale calves off WA's northern coast has described the scenes as "intense" and "distressing" - but ultimately just part of nature at work.
Six week's after she was born with a rare condition that left her unable to stand or feed, Melbourne Zoo's vets decided that their elephant calf had been through enough pain.
Some fish may cope with the changing chemistry of the oceans linked to global warming by permanently setting their body defences to night-time levels, the time of day when they find seawater least hospitable, a study says.
It was a 40 year animal mystery which followed perhaps thousands of years of silence.
A 'one-in-35-year' storm is partly to blame for the death of about 200,000 pine trees in Kowen Forest.
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