The sun was still low on the horizon when 19-year-old Piper James walked toward the Pacific Ocean for a morning swim on an ...

Experts estimate 11,000 hectares of core habitat for the critically endangered parrot has been lost to a recent fire.

Human-shark encounters in Australia are rising - but experts are keen to point out it isn't the animals' fault.

A dramatic slump in London house prices has led experts to warn a similar scenario could play out in Australia, with one ...

Despite an injection of more than $260 million in Australian aid, the situation for women in Afghanistan remains 'bleak'.

“Koalas are in steep decline across much of eastern Australia, but in south Australia’s Mount Lofty Ranges, the opposite problem is happening: a booming koala population,” says ecologist Frédérik ...

Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators ...

Reducing annual alcohol consumption in Australia by one liter a person could significantly lower deaths from several major ...

Reducing annual alcohol consumption in Australia by one litre a person could significantly lower deaths from several major cancers, particularly among older Australians, a new study led by La Trobe ...

The painted outline of a human hand inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna represents what researchers are calling the oldest example of rock art in the world, created at least 67,800 years ...

Were Greenland to adopt an open border policy, Greenland would quickly become a flash point for an international crisis, and ...