Shade-cloth covers have cut evaporation from Victorian water storage basins by a whopping 90 per cent.

Blowfly maggots and dog-wash play starring roles in the story of a remarkable environmental clean-up technology.

Climate change crosses national boundaries, and so does an Australia–China project to determine if there is a connection between the two countries’ rainy seasons.

Australian researchers have discovered a gene for wood strength in Eucalyptus trees which could boost Australia’s $18 billion forest and wood product industry.

Climate change policy debates have been preoccupied with the economic cost of taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet recent assessments have reframed the question, focusing instead on the cost of inaction. In fact, the damage caused by unmitigated climate change may be the bigger threat to the global economy. Benjamin Preston and Roger Jones elaborate.

From daily smog to the rising threat of global warming, it’s pretty obvious that we all need to clean up our act a little. Much has been said about how to go about doing this at home, but what about in the workplace? Copiers, computers, even old floppy disks, can make a huge impact on the environment.

Scientists have identified the deep ocean pathway linking the three Southern Hemisphere ocean basins, which will help them explain how the ocean governs global climate.

In the space of 12 months, the biofuels industry has gone from climate saviour to environmental scapegoat. But in the longer-term, it has a crucial – and sustainable – role to play.

A new book on Northern Australia by four of the country’s leading scientists reveals the region has the largest and least damaged tropical savanna in the world.

One of Australia's greatest conservation challenges in protecting the Great Barrier Reef  is staying one jump ahead of both the movement of protected species and the emergence of new threats.

Research has shown that eliminating gill netting and trawling in 16 of the inshore fishing ares in NZ waters is the most effective way of stopping Hector's dolphin from becoming extinct.

Coal-fired power stations are acknowledged as the single largest contributor to Australia’s carbon dioxide emissions. PhD student, Julianna Franco, has developed a cost-effective CO2 capture system based on the use of inexpensive plastic.

Researchers from Lincoln University’s Soil and Physical Sciences Group, have been studying emissions of nitrous oxide from a New Zealand river for several years and have discovered large discrepancies between the IPCC default factors pertaining to nitrous oxide emissions from rivers and actual measured values.

Leading climatologist has revealed that sea-level rises caused by global warming are higher than those published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earlier this year.

The International Energy Agency, a body set up to advise OECD nations on energy supply and security, broke with its previous optimistic projections of world oil supply and threw the future of oil into doubt.