Science is moving closer to finding an alternative for the painful yet beneficial act of sheep mulesing, but will researchers develop a solution by the 2010 deadline? Carmelo Amalfi examines the current, more sheep-friendly, alternatives available.

Researchers have developed a network of sensors that can track bird populations with minimal disturbance by monitoring their calls.

Researchers have found that changes in sea-surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation patterns have caused a decline in Australian rainfalls.

By 2050 the Great Barrier Reef will be unrecognisable. Bacterial slime, largely devoid of life, will be everywhere, writes Charlie Veron.

New technology that predicts plant breeding outcomes is putting improved crop strains in the field faster, and could aid the dwindling global food supply.

A tool has been created to help sea cage aquaculture managers make sustainable decisions about their sites' locations and the number of fish that can be farmed.

In a world first, scientists have inserted DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger into a mouse and observed a biological function from the ressurected gene.

Dr Paul Fox and his agricultural research team discovered that doing experiments in the middle of Iraq's war zone poses some unusual problems. Peter Terry reports.

Researchers have discovered an unlikely colony of Brittlestars atop an underwater summit, fed and protected soley by the detour of an ocean current.

A new report has revealed that hidden environmental costs will make food production more vulnerable and expensive than previously estimated.

A study has proved for the first time that human-caused climate change has led to the shrinking of glaciers and damage to many ecosystems across the planet.

Researchers have discovered that the strange looking mantis shrimp has unique polarised vision that allows it to see a world invisible to all other animals.

Desire to conform can be so strong in lone fish that they will follow another fish into danger, though in crowds they stay with more popular trends, research has found.

Scientists have developed a safer method of manually collecting ostrich sperm using a dummy, rather than human, sexual partner for the powerful males.

Understanding how the lung develops in newborn marsupials is part of award-winning research by a PhD student in Zoology.