From reptile blood to green tea, medical researchers are borrowing from the natural remedies of the past to improve health today, writes Catherine Madden.

Researchers believe that warmer seas off Western Australia could result in longer summers and milder winters. Peter Terry investigates the quest to predict the future of water temperatures and seasonal climates.

Australia has lagged behind Europe and North America in research and policy on endocrine disrupting chemicals in the country’s waterways. CSIRO has been working with Land & Water Australia to lay the groundwork for local action. Tuppy McIntosh reports.

Exploiting a renewable resource for maximum economic profit is the antithesis of sustainable management, right? Not if you're running a fishery, reports Wendy Pyper.

With global climate models indicating a further 20 per cent decline in rainfall across southeastern Australia by 2030, irrigated agriculture, particularly in the southern Murray–Darling Basin, is suddenly facing an uncertain future. Now that the new COAG National Water Plan is signed, how might our irrigation systems be adapted for the 21st century? Graeme O’Neill provides some perspective.

Dr Leonie Pearson explains that we need to better understand that nature and humanity are dynamic and co-evolving, and that achieving sustainability is not the single goal of decreased consumption, but rather of increasing our adaptive capacity to external shocks and challenges.

The era of micro-manufacturing is challenging engineers to better understand the properties of materials when they are worked on at the molecular level. Robin Taylor finds out about the new type of tool kit needed.

Neal Fogarty has worked in the Australian sheep and wool industry for over forty years and witnessed many changes, including the 'lamb revolution'. At his retirement, the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries asked him to reflect on the past decades' growth.

A shortage of skilled labour is seriously undermining Australia's oil and gas boom, writes Louise Pemble.

One of the world’s largest carbon geosequestration projects is about to swing into action off the coast of Western Australia, reports Louise Pemble.