Carl Smith

Canberra’s annual kangaroo cull will go ahead after the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal rejected a challenge by an animal rights group. The ACT Government had planned to begin killing 1,600 eastern grey kangaroos on eight nature reserves in early May, in a bid to protect grassland from overgrazing. But Animal Liberation lodged a challenge with ACAT arguing there was no scientific evidence to prove reducing kangaroo numbers helped the environment.

Australian scientists have created the world’s first water tractor beam which they hope can be used to clean up oil spills.

The ACT will introduce a one-metre rule for motorists passing cyclists, with the minimum distance growing to 1.5 metres above 60kph.

The discovery of graphene earned researchers a Nobel Prize. But has the promise of wonderful new materials been realised?

During big storms and low tides, ancient whale fossils fall from the cliffs along Victoria’s Surf Coast — researchers say they hold clues to how the largest living creature came to be.

If you want to get rid of mosquitoes, breeding more of them might seem weird. But this scientist, working on a remote tropical island once owned by actor Marlon Brando, has hit on a mosquito sterilisation technique that he hopes will eventually eradicate dengue, Zika and more.

Meet the woman tracking ocean acidification in the Pacific — a rising danger that could destroy marine life and livelihoods.

The Fiji crested iguana — also known as Vokai — is one of the country’s most treasured species. You can see a picture of it on the country’s $5 bill and on the back of every dollar coin. But not only is it critically endangered, its native habitat is dwindling.

Inside the Pacific’s gene bank, thousands of crop varieties are propagated, to prepare for the spread of new agricultural diseases and the impact of a changing climate. Some seedlings are the last of their kind.