Virtually every street in Australia is home to a “bland” and “useless” feature that could be used for something that’s more impactful, environmentally beneficial and socially unifying. Urban planner and social media star Samuel Austin, who raises issues about how we live via videos on TikTok and Instagram, has takenContinue Reading
Travellers returning from Europe and Asia have been asked to carefully check their luggage for stink bugs, which could threaten the agriculture industry if reintroduced. The urgent warning comes after the hitchhiker pest was discovered in the luggage of a traveller returning to NSW from Asia. The traveller found theContinue Reading
An iconic Aussie bird is close to becoming extinct, according to an international list providing global extinction risk status of animal and plant species. Queensland’s palm cockatoo has been moved up from “least concern” to “near threatened” status by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List. TheContinue Reading
If the blossoms popping up in gardens across Australia’s east are anything to go by: spring has sprung early this year. Australia has experienced an unusually warm and dry winter this year and, globally, July was the hottest month recorded. The warmer conditions have been enough to trick our plantsContinue Reading
This one is personal! This topic is right in my wheelhouse and something I essentially struggle with daily. Our lives are busy and sadly, the garden is the first place affected by the rush of kids getting to sport, school, parties – the list goes on. Slowly the weeds creepContinue Reading
Scientists have made a significant breakthrough after discovering two-million-year-old DNA that has opened a new chapter in the history of evolution. On Wednesday, scientists in Greenland said they had found the oldest DNA ever extracted, in sediment from the Ice Age, opening a new chapter in paleogenetics. “We are breakingContinue Reading