Australian peat-forming wetlands, including those in Tasmania's largest Ramsar reserve—Lavinia State Reserve (LSR), are under threat from climate change, wildfires and human activities. A palaeoecolo....

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

Every spring, Bogong moths use the starry night sky as a compass to navigate up to 1,000 km towards their alpine migratory goal.

Contemporary gifts made by Indigenous artists carry the legacy of colonisation. The ethics of gift exchange need to be discussed more openly — which might include public discussion about how and why c...

Human overexploitation contributed strongly to the loss of hundreds of bird species across Oceania, including nine giant, flightless birds called moa.…

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

The Long Island History Project · Episode

The mountain peaks of a landscape now under water are all that remains visible of a once grassy plain that connected Tasmania to mainland Australia.

Fully understanding the causes and frequency of wildfires has never been more important than it is today, with potentially thousands of lives at risk from wildfire smoke in Australia alone. Until now ...

Ornithologists use many methods to advance understanding of birds and inform conservation strategies. These include field methods (e.g. censusing, ringing), laboratory analysis (e.g. molecular taxono...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team of scientists from Montana State University uncovered the ancient forest wh...

The CODATA Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal, publishing papers on the management, dissemination, use and reuse of research data and databases across all researc...

The Bass Strait islands are the elevated remnants of a now-submerged continental land bridge that connected the mainland of Australia to Lutruwita/Tasmania during low sea level phases of the Quaterner...

Roughly 40,000 years ago, the short-faced cousins of modern kangaroos died out. The cause has been the subject of fierce debate.

We knew this would happen eventually. We have moved from possible futures to these things now happening. The deferment has ended.

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A new study has revealed Aboriginal people in Tasmania used fire to manage and modify the landscape thousands of years earlier than previously estimated.Jointly completed by researchers from the Austr...

South American cordilleran orogenic systems have repeated complex magmatic and deformation histories. Here the authors analyze detrital zircons found in the Amazon deep-sea fan that record mountain-bu...

The first Australians used fire to help populate Tasmania 41,000 years ago Aboriginal Australians used fire to manipulate landscapes during their migration into Tasmania (Lutruwita) roughly 4...

A new paper reveals how Aboriginal people changed the landscape by burning, demonstrating how similar practices could help manage modern bushfires