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Australia has a sandcastle culture, according to Jim Davidson, one-time editor of Meanjin. His point: we suffer from cultural ...

Humans are causing enormous damage to the Earth, and about 1 million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction.

Box jellies, also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off Northern Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific. They are pale blue and transparent in color and get ...

Endemic to the waters off south and east Australia, leafy sea dragons are ... It is not known if they are preyed upon by other animals. They are, however, frequently taken by divers seeking ...

Koalas, wombats and other native Australian animals occupy a vaunted place in the national identity and play a critical role in the tourism industry. But these species are increasingly under ...

It’s also a problem for Australia’s unique and vulnerable biodiversity. Biodiversity monitoring involves looking for a plant or animal species, or traces of it, and recording what was found ...