Ozone levels above Antarctica may not be recovering after all.

Tasmania has won the award for Australia’s best tasting tap water for the third time in eight years.

Experts want Queensland’s fluoridation gap closed.

Santos’ work on an offshore pipeline has been partly paused by court action.

Experts say Australia should fight harder in the war against antimicrobial resistance.

New technology should help augment NSW water supplies.

A new report warns of a potential fivefold increase in heat-related deaths by 2050.

Australia faces an elevated risk of blackouts this summer as...

Australia must electrify 500 homes each day and triple the pace of retrofitting non-residential buildings to achieve its 2050 emissions target.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles has divested shares in gas company Woodside amid scrutiny over a perceived conflict of interest.

NSW has allocated $413 million for new renewable energy projects.

The Senate has passed contentious sea dumping legislation.

A Senate inquiry has given its support to the federal government's proposed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Analysts say Australia's power system faces heightened exposure to climate change.

Researchers say comets may have delivered molecules for life on Earth at the perfect speed.

Woodside Energy CEO Meg O’Neill says demand for oil and gas will stay high.

Australian aerospace startup AMSL Aero is set to elevate hydrogen-powered flight with a $5.43 million ARENA grant.

Chinese researchers have successfully achieved the live birth of a chimaeric monkey, using cells from multiple embryos.

Governments worldwide are on track to produce 110 per cent more fossil fuels by 2030 than is consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

Space telescope Euclid's inaugural test images have revealed some promising results.

The Northern Territory has unveiled one of its largest water allocation plans ever.

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

Even though many of us have been forced indoors, the COVID-19 crisis is eroding our privacy.

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