3+ hour, 17+ min ago  (437+ words) A mysterious eco-system of fungi weaves through the soil like spider silk, helping plants and crops grow. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - partly named after the Greek word for root - deliver essential nutrients and water to plants, a critical connection that's been…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (395+ words) Hundreds of thousands of trees will be planted to restore critical habitat in a bid to save an endangered native cockatoo from extinction. The massive conservation project will create a 10km-long bushland corridor for the Carnaby's Black Cockatoo in Western…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (797+ words) The members of our local book club were sitting in the hall last weekend, eating homemade hummuus, the best flatbread ever and lemon coconut cardamom cake (our book club could be renamed 'the happy food and local news club') when…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (25+ words) The Canberra Times Climate change is turning an entire species of green turtles female...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (809+ words) My family has a small property near Albury. It's our pride and joy. Twelve acres of recovering sheep country, half of it set aside for bush. Since we've been here, I've spotted 195 bird species plus the occasional echidna and wallaby....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (714+ words) The insurgents use the cover of darkness, arriving just after the sun has set or in the half light before it rises. Elaborate countermeasures to thwart their infiltrations have failed. Chemical warfare has been tried. Terrifying decoys deployed. Complex aerial…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (440+ words) The latest Great Barrier Reef rescue package has been dismissed as a water pistol on a bushfire, just weeks before a potential "in danger" ruling for the natural wonder. Almost $92 million has been unveiled for reef management, taking the total…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (642+ words) As hundreds of the nation's best young badminton talent descended on Canberra this weekend, there was an elephant in the room that is also a major talking point globally. Not an elephant, actually. A goose. Badminton worldwide is at a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1328+ words) It seems Peter Davies and his wife weren't the only motorists recently bamboozled by the puzzling sight of dozens of mysterious smoke-like columns eerily rising above Lake George. Lesley Harlans of Higgins and her friend also witnessed the curious columns…...

2+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (1169+ words) When Professor Brad Pillans of ANU's Research School of Earth Sciences stumbled upon a sea shell on the receding shoreline of Lake George, he thought he was seeing things. Brad was undertaking his fortnightly measurements of the water levels, which…...