This English-born marine scientist has stepped up to become a leader in the fight to safeguard the world’s reefs.

Nestled between mountains and sea, Lake Macquarie offers a perfect mix of culture, cuisine, community, and an abundance of ...

Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species but new research shows conservation efforts are helping to ...

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The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed.

A formidable native bird of prey, the red goshawk has been sighted in Central Australia for the first time in three decades.

26 January 1788: A convict settlement is establish at Sydney Cove.

Writer Liz Ginis grew from toddler to teen in the green pastures and eucalypt forests of the Bellinger Valley on the NSW Mid North Coast, making her the ideal writer to cover our story on the Great ...

Another majestic aerial acrobat of Mungo is the white-backed swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna), which lives and nests in an entirely different environment to its welcome cousins. My first encounter ...

You don’t need me to tell you Australia boasts a coastline of beautiful beaches … more than 10,000 of them, in fact. While some stretches of sand such as Surfers Paradise and Bondi are iconic, many ...

Rising above a tall karri eucalypt forest, the granite domes of Western Australia’s Porongurup Range National Park sit ancient and heavy with time. They’re part of a landscape left over from 500 ...

It’s not surprising in a country the size of Australia that a lot of puzzling occurrences are reported. Here we delve into some of the nation’s most enduring ‘inexplicable’ events.