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The hail library at the University of Queensland collects and researches hail stones.

Ice work if you can get it: Scientists at the hail library want stones that fell in your yard

A team of researchers is working to understand the weather phenomenon, and they’ve just launched a new project.

  • Dominique Tassell

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Walk, don’t run.

‘If you run, you become prey’: In this camp, not all guests are human

“Where can I go for a jog?” I ask naively. “You can’t jog here,” the ranger says.

  • Steve Jacobs
Are Perth’s flies getting worse? You may be surprised.

Are Perth’s flies getting worse? Yes – but they’re not nearly as bad as they could be

It’s that time of the year again, and experts say West Australians must get used to the new buzzy normal as temperatures continue to heat up.

  • Hannah Murphy
Botanist Stephen Hopper: while our eucalypts may seem similar, there is actually “a riot of diversity”.

The humble scientist who became the world’s greatest eucalypt expert

Revered for millennia in Indigenous culture, our gum trees continue to surprise botanists today.

  • Victoria Laurie
Jane Goodall had a bird-like frame but the energy of a stalking lion.

I worked with Jane Goodall. She had the energy of a stalking lion

The much-loved British primatologist, who died on Wednesday, changed the world by refusing to let it be made small.

  • Kim McKay
Carnaby’s cockatoos with a nesting hollow.

Alcoa’s plans the ‘number one extinction threat’ to WA’s black cockatoos

Mining giant Alcoa plans to clear as many as 150,000 potential black cockatoo nesting trees to expand operations throughout the state’s northern jarrah forest.

  • Emma Young
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The larger of the two trees is estimated to be almost 30 metres tall.

They bought a knockdown-rebuild and got a fight over Thornbury’s tallest trees

The larger of two eucalypts locals are fighting to save is estimated to be more than 25 metres tall and believed to be one of the tallest trees in Thornbury.

  • Tom Cowie
The Baudin’s black cockatoo in flight.

‘Death knell’ for Baudin’s black cockatoo as conservation bid rejected

The scientific community says there could be as few as 2500 of the birds left in the wild and asks whether the government is “waiting for zero” to act.

  • Emma Young
The beloved Lancelin Lookout is collapsing as the beachfront erodes.

Coastal WA tourism town’s erosion emergency deepens as landmark washes away

Extreme coastal erosion at a much-loved coastal holiday town enters the next phase as plans for the area’s future remain mired in deep controversy.

  • Emma Young
More than a million petroglyphs are scattered around Murujuga National Park, which overlooks Woodside’s Karratha operations.

Archaeologists to talk rock art harm at world congress

The event comes just weeks after the federal government gave Woodside’s North West Shelf project the green light to keep operating until 2070.

  • Lloyd Jones