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five people ride in on overloaded tinny through flood waters and rain

The east coast rain seems endless. Where is all the water coming from?

08 Mar 2022

By following moisture from the oceans to the land, researchers worked out exactly how three oceans conspire to deliver deluges of rain to eastern Australia.

Native marsupial populations on the rise in Sturt National Park

03 Mar 2022

This World Wildlife Day, we celebrate the three native mammal species – bilbies, crest-tailed mulgaras and Shark Bay bandicoots – now thriving in Sturt National Park since their

Sandbags protect a local business as flood water washes by

Flooding across NSW and Queensland: Experts available for comment

01 Mar 2022

UNSW experts available to comment on flooding and record rain across NSW and Queensland.

Crest-tailed mulgara

Reintroduced mammals now thriving in Sturt National Park

27 Feb 2022

This is the project milestone ecologists had been hoping for.

wild dogs feeding

African wild dogs have a feeding queue: why it makes sense

21 Feb 2022

Understanding feeding patterns is key to understanding the origin and implications of many aspects of animal social lives.

A crop plantation with mountains in the background

National parks are not enough – we need landholders to protect threatened species on their property

11 Feb 2022

Threatened species don’t just live in national parks. Almost half of their distributions are on private land.

Man standing in misty Tarcutta Hills Reserve

Queensland's vast private conservation areas are dangerously exposed to mining

02 Feb 2022

New research finds Queensland’s laws fail to protect private conservation areas from the hidden impacts of mining on groundwater.

Citizen scientists looking at leaves on a tree

Citizen scientists needed to help record impact of fires on biodiversity

18 Jan 2022

UNSW scientists hope the Big Bushfire BioBlitz will build on the 17,500 observations submitted to the Environment Recovery Project.

Firefighter preparing to battle incoming fire

It's time to rethink Australia's fire management strategies

14 Jan 2022

In this era of mega-fires, diverse strategies are urgently needed so we can safely live with fire.

Tasmanian devil stepping out of a hessian bag

Tasmanian devils have just broken the laws of scavenging - and scientists are puzzled

12 Jan 2022

They are the only known scavengers in the world to have picky diets.

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