This is one of the best times of year to visit an estuary (the brackish, marshy area where a river meets the sea).

There are millions of feral cats across Australia, and that has been taking a heavy toll on native wildlife.

The SA National Roads Agency has undertaken to give back what it took away from nature along roads, out of respect for the environment and communities.

Hotter and drier summers are forcing a scramble to higher altitudes in one of the country's most recognised cool-climate wine regions.

Australia's rarest freshwater fish only lives in tiny inhospitable springs in arid outback Queensland and thanks to an innocuous invasive species, it has nearly disappeared

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, asked a judge on 11 May to dismiss portions of three.

May is one of the peak months for foraging as wild flowers and herbs come into full bloom. One big advantage of wild foods is that they have up to 20 times as many vitamins and minerals as their cultivated

Research facilities and medicine were among the winners for science in Australia's 2018–19 national budget, which was proposed on Tuesday.

Each month, Living Lab Radio checks in with Nature News to talk about some of the latest research headlines. This time we talk with senior reporter Lizzie Gibney at the London bureau.

A big, puffy planet orbiting a small, bright star in the constellation Virgo is leaking helium into space. It’s the first time astronomers have spotted the element on a planet beyond the Solar System,

The conservative coalition that dominates Brazil’s Congress is girding itself for one final push to roll back environmental regulations before campaigns for the country’s October presidential election

Little published research emerges from North Korea, but after historic peace talks last week with South Korea, scientists have reason to hope that the country will open up to more collaborations.

Nurseries of the Forest Department in the district are buzzing with activity as State government peps up its afforestation drive.

Cosmologists think that in its first moments, the Universe ballooned from a subatomic size to bigger than a grapefruit. But testing theories about this period is difficult, because researchers cannot recreate

For 18 years Barbara Rosenberg has made a habit of sitting quietly by her property's lagoon, hoping to spot its resident platypus.

By "Sunday Morning" contributing videographer Judy Lehmberg.

A researcher surveys damage on the Great Barrier Reef following the March 2016 mass coral-bleaching event.

My first enlarger, conjured from a mysterious, fatherly deal in the pub, was an Edwardian antique of mahogany and brass. It stretched horizontally along the potting bench, the bellows extending on tracks.

Anyone who's accidentally stood on an ant nest will know just how good they are at defending their home, but a new species of "exploding ant" takes it to the next level.