The Melbourne Office for Environmental Programs was set up in 2002 to provide a flexible, graduate coursework experience that enables students from a range of…

University of Newcastle hydrodynamics expert, Dr Mike Meylan, part of the research team behind a recent groundbreaking discovery that linked the effects of storm-generated waves on…

University of Melbourne researchers observed the behaviour of 30 koalas during hot weather at French Island, to the city’s east. They found that while panting…

The discovery of musky rat-kangaroo fossils has prompted experts to call for better protection of tropical rainforests after new links show the tiny marsupial cannot…

A two-decade study of carbon storage changes within North American forests provides new evidence of the direct impact of climate change on ecosystem function, opening questions…

An international team of scientists estimate that up to half of the recent global warming in Greenland is caused by natural climate variations. The research,…

Highly regarded environmentalist, Don Henry has been appointed as a Public Policy Fellow at the University of Melbourne. In his role, Mr Henry will undertake…

A future without bugs? Yay! We should be so lucky. But don’t be too quick to rejoice. Future episodes of extreme weather will lead to…

New research suggests that rising global temperatures will increase the quantity of the key greenhouse gas methane emitted from freshwater ecosystems to the Earth’s atmosphere—which…

A University of Queensland researcher’s work has been ranked 11th in a listing of the world’s top 100 most talked about academic papers of 2013. Global…