Zoe Kean

Huge patches of forest in Tasmania have rapidly turned brown over recent months, with many trees dying after a dry summer. As climate change causes hotter and drier weather, can we expect more tree deaths in the future?

How a tin miner living in remote Tasmania helped discover what may be the world’s oldest and most mysterious clone that has excited scientists for years.

Welcome to Tattsmania. From mountains, devils, tigers, and tunes, why is it that tattoos are so popular in Tasmania?

This simple task can help save you money and keep you warm in winter. You’ve just got to remember to do it.

How the pademelon often tricks the world into thinking it is the extinct thylacine, and seven other wild pademelon facts.

In 1805 black swans, kangaroos, and the world’s last King Island emu lived amongst the sweeping lawns of the Château de Malmaison in Paris. So how did this creature make it to an empress’ garden?

Tasmania’s native bees aren’t as notorious as the Tassie devil or the swift parrot. But these tiny, unassuming and strangely beguiling bugs are incredibly important to the state’s forests and fields.

James Chung Gon arrived in Australia to try his luck on the goldfields of Bendigo. Legend has it that all he had to his name was a shilling in his pocket, but he turned it into a fortune.

Sometimes dubbed mermaid’s purses, these strange and wonderful works of nature are a common find on Australian beaches and scientists want beachcombers to help them learn more.

In 1997, Tasmania became the last Australian state to decriminalise sex between men, and one activist believes that enduring homophobia can be directly traced to the penal colonies of the island’s past.

First they discovered that wombats created their famously square poos in the intestine and not at “point of exit”. Now, the same team of scientists has explained how wombats poo such “perfectly consistent” pellets.

Long-spined sea urchins — the “single biggest threat” for reefs in eastern Tasmania — are arriving via an ocean current supercharged by climate change. So what can be done about it?

Being an adult who does not drive can come with setbacks, judgement and unexpected benefits. Here are your stories.

Unusually dry weather is leaving the state’s Wilderness World Heritage Area sensitive to fire. It’s a prospect that threatens a living fossil that traces its history to the ancient super-continent Gondwana.

Driving is seen as such a common skill that Rosie, Tim, and Sophie are often met with shock when they tell people they don’t drive.

While spotting a badly-stuffed platypus in an overseas museum may draw a laugh from visiting Australians, scientists say poor taxidermy is a serious matter that can affect a species’ survival.

Bushwalking can be about more than just the destination. For Bin Ling, it’s also about the plants she sees on the way.

Deer numbers in Tasmania are soaring. A new trial will see specialist sharp shooters taking to the sky in helicopters next year to cull feral deer in Tasmania’s world heritage wilderness areas. But how will it work?

Meet Tasmaniosaurus, the ancient reptile fossil found in West Hobart.

Sea foam is the ocean’s bubble bath, but is it safe? CSIRO algae scientist Anusuya Willis takes us into her lab to put it under the microscope.