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Prof Dwyer is bringing her formidable energy to solving the mystery of why so many of Victoria’s rural communities are ‘hot spots’ of kidney disease.

Sometimes, in the enormity of the global climate emergency, we forget about the importance of the small stuff.

Australia’s recycling system is not as effective as it needs to be.

With the festivities comes excessive waste that can have detrimental effects on our planet.

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Spyware has the potential to reveal personal and sensitive information from an individual's phone.

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Can seas grass and mangroves protect our coasts?

Since Europeans arrived in Australia, at least 34 native mammal species have become extinct.

The Amazon rainforest houses over 1 million different species. In 2019, countless fires have devastated the area.

Defining a wetland is a difficult task, even for scientists today.

Current legislation is failing dismally to recover the population of species lost to bring them out of their endangered states.

Deakin experts call for more action to save nature before it’s too late.

We hear quite a bit about the conservation of threatened species, but what’s being done to save the ecosystems they live in?

And can sharks and humans truly coexist?

We often think of the future as a distant planet, something so far away and alien that it’s too hard to comprehend.