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The tiny forest at Teralba Public School, Lake Macquarie, on planting  in May 2024 (right) and November 2025 (left).

How forests the size of tennis courts transform Australian cities

You’ve heard of tiny homes, but what about tiny forests? It’s a growing movement in Australia, based on Japanese ideas.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Lake Eyre/Kati Thanda flooding as seen from the air in October.

Revealed: how the environment in your suburb is improving or declining

Nationally, Australia’s environment was better than the average of the past 25 years. Look up our interactive map to see how your suburb or local government area fared.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Feral red deer in the Grampians National Park.

‘Offensive’: Farmers and green groups lash Allan government over deer

With an estimated 1 million feral deer in Victoria causing untold damage to farms and the environment, farming and green groups have thrown down the gauntlet.

  • Bianca Hall
Regent honeyeaters have had their habitat bulldozed in NSW under the environmental offsets system.

Environmental offsets scheme rife with non-compliance

Government audits have raised questions over the integrity of the nation’s environmental offsets system.

  • Ben Cubby
A female powerful owl emerges from its nest at sunset.

Leading rat poisons to face new restrictions, could be pulled from sale

Popular ranges of rat and mouse poisons which also kill owls and possums will be restricted for use within weeks and could be pulled from supermarket and hardware shelves within months.

  • Bianca Hall
A water dragon with a fungal infection

‘Alarming’ mystery fungus putting Australian reptiles at risk

A fungal infection found growing on Brisbane water dragons poses a risk to half the reptile species in Australia, researchers warn.

  • Julius Dennis
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A Sydney scientist has turned to a favourite crumpet-topper to fights against antimicrobial resistance.

This crisis kills 100 Australians a week. A solution might be in your pantry

New research has drawn a direct link between the biodiversity of the Australian bush, drug resistance and your favourite crumpet-topper.

  • Angus Dalton
Footage of a lizard in the bat cave in Uganda.

Stunning bat cave footage captures disease spread risk for first time

Researchers were astonished to film at least 14 different species, including monitor lizards, leopards and monkeys, visiting the cave to feast on potentially disease-ridden bats.

  • Arthur Scott-Geddes
Fire ants were first recorded at the Port of Brisbane in 2001.

Fire ant eradication attempts may be helping the invaders, study finds

Mass pesticides could be killing the ants’ predators and wasting millions of dollars, according to a new study on the contentious national program.

  • Julius Dennis
Inside or out? What to do with Australia’s cats?

Don’t bell Australia’s cats. Just make it illegal to own one

It is rightly illegal to own or import a fox, and yet we allow the breeding and selling of cats, which do about 10 times more damage.

  • Antone Martinho-Truswell