New Zealand is aiming to be the first country to be carbon neutral by 2020.

The first evidence that recent climate change has weakened one the Earth’s natural carbon ‘sinks’ has been published in the journal Science.

A hunt to identify types of native grasses suitable to assist in rehabilitation of mine sites has found not one, but three, possible candidates.

Greenhouse gases are emitted by soils as part of the natural cycling of nutrients and decomposition. These so called non-CO2 greenhouse gases make up one-quarter of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.

New research confirms that avoiding deforestation can play a key role in reducing future greenhouse gas concentrations.

Incidental and unpaid pollination services from feral and managed honeybee hives  are worth over $2 billion a year to Australian agriculture.  However recent experiences in the USA, NZ and Europe indicate these ‘free’ but valuable services may soon cease, taking with them 11,000 rural jobs, according to the Centre of International Economics.

An international team of scientists working on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has found a clear link between coral disease and warmer ocean temperatures.

Biofuel from biomass is emerging as a preferred source of liquid energy for transport - but the huge areas of agricultural land that are being, or will be, diverted from food production pose questions about the morality of industrial-scale biofuels development.

The increase in cancers, type II diabetes and degenerative diseases may be related to the cocktail of toxins that Australians are exposed to everyday, two leading scientists have warned.

The deadly chytrid fungus is making devastating in-roads into Australia's vulnerable frog populations, with a Griffith University study revealing the it is now established throughout Eastern Australia. 

Changes in growth rates in some coastal and long-lived deep-ocean fish species in the south west Pacific are consistent with shifts in wind systems and water temperatures, according to new Australian research.

Evidence of a bacterial agent in a dead endangered Maui’s dolphin found at the mouth of the Waikato River in November has prompted concerns for the future of the species.

Astronomers have made the first broadband hook-up between Australian radio telescopes, doing in just hours an experiment that would previously have taken weeks.

An earthquake occurred south of the Aleutian Islands which stretch across the top of the Pacific Ocean like Alaska's tail, on March 9, 1957. Official records from 50 years ago said, "Thanks to a timely alarm from the International Pacific Tsunami Warning Center at Honolulu, no human lives were lost."

The 'tongue' of the iconic Franz Josef Glacier will melt away in the next 100 years, according to new results from a team of glaciologists from Canterbury and Victoria universities.