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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.

Dr Carol Booth, the principal policy analyst at the Invasive Species Council, said H5N1 would be devastating to Australian animals. "When Avian influenza arrives, it's likely to be the biggest and ...

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 ...

A fluffy native mouse is among the Australian animals added to the international red list of threatened species, with conservationists warning of an escalating global extinction crisis.