The damage from military attacks on cities can fill the air with pollutants that harm the lungs and stress the heart.

Dubai’s real estate-driven growth faces a test as regional conflict threatens its safe‑haven status and the confidence of foreign investors.

By Jason M. Lodge, Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland ...

Paul R. Ehrlich will be remembered as a scientist whose books about population and threats to the environment shaped the idea of limited growth in the modern era.

A number of cases of the flesh-eating Buruli ulcer have now been detected on the New South Wales south coast. There is growing evidence mosquitoes are at least partly responsible for the spread of ...

St Patrick was actually a Roman Briton, who was kidnapped by Irish raiders, spirited across the sea and enslaved, aged 16. How did he become Ireland’s national hero?

Edin Whitehead, Research Fellow in Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau The Hauraki Gulf is already experiencing more frequent and longer lasting marine heatwaves. Seabirds ...

Without fanfare, the Australian government has published the latest snapshot on its progress toward halting and reversing the loss of Australia’s biodiversity – our unique wildlife, plants and nature ...

Around 200 million animals are used in lab research around the world each year. Organoids may one day replace them.

Genetic signatures help uncover the echoes of the past events in the histories of jewelweed populations, and understand their genetic implications for conservation.

The 2026 Academy Awards revealed a striking contradiction. Many of the winning films grapple with urgent contemporary issues, or difficult questions of historical memory. Yet their makers avoided ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Asteroid particles offer a glimpse into the chemical ...