Tracey Ferrier
Wild results from chlamydia vaccine trial for koalas
Researchers are elated after charting incredible results from a trial vaccine to protect wild koalas from the ravages of chlamydia. Chlamydial disease...
Packaging industry won’t meet single target on waste
The packaging industry won’t meet any of the waste-busting targets it set for itself, sparking fresh calls for the government to force it...
Plastics now represent overwhelming bulk of beach debris
Plastic now dwarfs every other kind of litter found on Australian shores and 80 per cent of what the nation uses still...
Deep ocean system headed for ‘collapse’ as Antarctic ice melts
Australian scientists have made dire projections about what Antarctica’s melting ice will do to global ocean health without rapid emissions cuts this decade....
Study charts decade of loss on Australian reefs
Life is dwindling on the reefs that ring Australia with more than half of the most common species in population decline, new analysis...
‘Uncomfortable truth’: Scientists say plastics chemicals doing untold human harm
A global coalition of scientists and other experts say the human race is swimming in a toxic soup of chemicals used to...
‘This can be done’: UN’s message on net-zero
Australia and other developed countries must achieve net zero emissions a decade earlier than most have promised, the chief of the United...
‘This can be done’: UN chief says net-zero deadlines must be brought forward a decade
Australia and other developed countries must achieve net-zero emissions a decade earlier than most have promised, the chief of the United Nations...
Climate scientists unpick Australia’s year of weather disasters
Some of the nation’s top climate scientists have unpicked the factors behind Australia’s disastrous and deadly year of weather and climate extremes....
Climate warning as major bushfires like Black Summer harm ozone layer
Megafires such as Australia’s Black Summer blazes can harm the ozone layer that protects life on earth, new research suggests. The findings are...