Solar-powered irrigation systems can boost food and income levels in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, new research has found.

A new study has revealed that seaweeds have claimed more than 40 per cent of the inshore reefs on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Australian scientists have become the first in the world to successfully restore a coastal wetland that had been damaged by acid runoff.

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The chloroplast genome of the Wollemi Pine has been sequenced in the hope of explaining how it survived 200 million years of climate change.

Researchers are working on a genetic test that can quickly identify twenty thousand grass species, including key pasture species.