by Matilda Meikle | Jan 19, 2023 | Environment
To celebrate the 100-day countdown to the highly-anticipated Earth Day 2023, EARTHDAY.ORG have announced five ways they plan to ‘invest in our planet’. Earth Day has been an important movement since it was first introduced in 1970. Since then, the event has grown to...
by Emily Riches | Jan 11, 2023 | Environment
The ability of the Albert’s lyrebird to mimic sounds is world-famous. However, a recent study has shown that they could be losing their voice if more isn’t done to protect their habitat. Lyrebirds are one of the animal kingdom’s greatest mimics: famous for their...
by The Lighthouse | Dec 22, 2022 | Environment
A world-first study projects that climate change and land clearing will profoundly change half of the world’s remaining wilderness areas by 2050 unless governments act immediately to protect them. Governments must act now to protect the world’s remaining wilderness...
by Matilda Meikle | Dec 22, 2022 | Environment
Bioluminescent millipedes have been accidentally discovered for the first time in Australia by a local bushwalker. 18 years ago, Scott Kemp was walking a bush trail in Illawarra when he came across glow-in-the-dark millipedes. At the time, he was unaware that they had...
by Lauren Lefever | Dec 21, 2022 | Environment, Science
In western Queensland, near the remote town of McKinlay, a group of amateur female palaeontologists (known as the “Rock Chicks”) unearthed a rare 100 million-year-old fossil of an ancient dinosaur. The plesiosaur fossil, known as an elasmosaur, was complete with the...
by The Lighthouse | Dec 14, 2022 | Environment
A river management framework developed at Macquarie University and now used on six continents has been recognised in the NSW Parliament’s 2022 Research Impact Showcase. Macquarie University’s River Styles Framework – a management system devised to assess river health...
