Environment archive

CSIRO is today expected to announce up to 350 people will lose their jobs – just days after the Australian government boosted funding to the national science agency by A$387 million. Our scientific colleagues have told us roughly a third of CSIRO’s climate modellers are expected to lose their jobs –...

Six simple things you can do to help keep your house cool when temperatures rise.

Marcus Golejewski/Getty Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea. The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in fishing gear with telltale cuts from a ship strike on its back. He was given the...

Water vole numbers nationally are in free fall, with more than 90 per cent lost since the 1970s.

Reproductions of works by Monet, Picasso and Van Gogh are being hung in town centres to bring art closer to communities The post Monet for nothing: the famous artworks cheering up UK high streets appeared first on Positive News.

Nerkez, CC BY-NC-ND One in three Australians says they are lonely. To be lonely is to feel a lack of adequate social connection. Loneliness is about feeling disconnected from others or unable to form the kinds of relationships people need to feel seen and supported. It’s often shaped by displacement...

A Texas-based company wants to expand its deep space communitcations network.

Newretreads/Wikimedia Dingoes have roamed Australia for at least 3,000 years. These clever canines are the mainland’s only native apex predator on land. They also hold deep cultural and spiritual meaning for many First Nations groups. When European colonists arrived, they brought domestic dogs. Thes...

The prime minister met Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and other crew members in Ottawa.