It is a daunting task: reimagining one of Australia’s most loved and important books – not to mention the Peter Weir film adaptation – on the opposite side of the world.
13/12/2025
What if you could add enzymes to plastic, which would decompose the plastic into safe and biodegradable parts after use? Scientists are doing just that.
07/12/2025
Guggenheim-designer Frank Gehry, known as one of the most formidable and original architects in history, has died at his California home.
06/12/2025
Parents should think twice before letting younger children have a smartphone because of risks to long-term health and wellbeing, one of the largest-ever US studies on child brain development suggests.
02/12/2025
I volunteered to make an energy-efficient home for my darling grandchildren. What could possibly go wrong?
30/11/2025
A carbon dioxide seep on a reef in Papua New Guinea is being used as a time machine to see into the future of the world’s coral.
29/11/2025
Three huge global companies – IKEA, Lendlease and Fortescue Mining – are heading towards net zero. If they can do it, so can everyone.
11/08/2025
Suspicions were first reported last year that the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter was managing to cut its emissions five years earlier than planned.
23/05/2025
The Natural History Museum in London – which holds about 20,000 human remains from across the world – wants to address the historic wrongs of the past.
11/04/2025
Australia’s energy system now offers vehicle-to-grid charging, which will make the concept of traditional baseload power redundant.
11/11/2024
The vision of a small group of sheep farmers is set to deliver nine per cent of the state’s energy requirements and a windfall for the local community.
11/10/2024
Consumers installed four times more electricity generation through rooftop solar in the first half of this year than all commercial projects combined.
24/09/2024