Researchers are trying everything they can to help coral reefs to survive severe heat stress from climate change, including playing sounds underwater.

New research shows over two million people lived across Australia pre-invasion, shattering colonial myths and underscoring the urgent need for genuine truth-telling and historical accountability.

Découvrez pourquoi la population aborigène d'Australie était, avant la colonisation, bien plus nombreuse qu'on ne le pensait.

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Australia's Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans was up to seven times larger than previously thought, research suggests. The study shows First Nations people suffered an estimated 93...

For a lot of the 20th century, a commonly cited estimate said there were around 300,000 Indigenous people living across Australia prior to invasion. But new research says the Aboriginal population was...

Die Kolonisation brachte Krankheiten, Gewalt und Tod nach Australien. 70 Jahre nach der Ankunft der Europäer war die indigene Bevölkerung laut einer neuen Studie um 93 Prozent geschrumpft.

1,598 likes, 158 comments - senatorthorpe on September 17, 2026: "2.2 million First Peoples existed pre-colonisation. I asked Minister Wong the tough questions.".

The Indigenous Australian population may have neared 2.2 million in 1788, and 93% of those people were gone within 80 years.

Australia had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, and that population suffered losses of 93 per cent after colonisation, according to new resea...

Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.

Australia had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, according to new research. The research also demonstrates much larger population […]

Flinders University is proud to be the world’s top performing university for reducing emissions, increasing renewable energy use and improving energy efficiency, according to the 2026 Sustainable Campus Index.

Invasive species pose a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Although it is widely recognized that invasion impacts differ across habitats and taxonomic groups, a systematic evaluat...

Online illegal wildlife trade threatens species, ecosystems and human well-being. This Review examines the species and products involved, online platforms, drivers, trade routes and impacts of this tr...

Australia needs an urgent overhaul to deal with biosecurity threats and environmental risks or faces being more exposed in the future.

Clear-cut timber harvest in boreal forests impacts local biodiversity; however, it is still unclear how quickly biotic groups rebound from such disturbances. This meta-analysis determines the resilien...

How do we protect the food we eat, the environment we depend on, and the future we share?

As record-breaking heat grips communities worldwide and Australia prepares for an intense El Niño summer, new research provides the first global review linking high temperatures and […]

As climate change and other factors intensify the threats from invasive species, researchers are finding smarter, more connected ways to protect ecosystems

La colonisation de l'Australie porterait la responsabilité d'une épidémie que les historiens attribuaient à une tout autre origine.

Australia has undergone extensive changes in land use and land cover which has contributed to some of the highest rates of species extinction of any c…

The impact of smallpox (variola) on Aboriginal communities in Australia beginning in 1789 was catastrophic and continues to cause intergenerational trauma. Historically biased perspectives and contemp

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The circular economy is a myth. Discover how the Jevons Paradox fuels overconsumption and why a pivot to post-growth sufficiency is our only way forward.

La investigación reconstruye el avance de la enfermedad desde la región de Sídney durante dos décadas y calcula una cifra muy elevada de víctimas en comunidades indígenas

Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months after Europeans arrived on the First Fleet. Little is known of the true scale of the epidemic, and historians have sometimes argued&hellip;

New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.

Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed

Humanity is pushing life to the brink. Mathematical ecologist, Corey Bradshaw, explains how our growing population and consumption are driving the depopulation and extinction of countless species whil...