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27 Jul 2020
New research from RSES has shown that Australia is prone to shallow and potentially destructive earthquakes.
24 Jul 2020
We know the climate changes as greenhouse gas concentrations rise, but the exact amount of expected warming remains uncertain.
24 Jul 2020
He was the founder of the second largest empire in history stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Carpathian Mountains of Europe.
28 May 2020
Given the importance of accurate reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths to strategies for virus control, we screened countries’ daily records for possible...
17 Jan 2020
Large-scale irrigation can help alleviate and even reverse hot extremes driven by human activity, and other drivers of global warming, a new international...
29 Nov 2019
Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according to new research that offers a glimpse of what may...
31 Oct 2019
They say it's what's on the inside that counts. And so it goes with the planet's surface; from mountain ranges to a river's drainage, the...
27 Sep 2019
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a grim picture of the future of Australia's coastal areas, but there's...
28 Aug 2019
A new study argues that Saturn's interior flows like honey due to its magnetic field, which may help solve the mystery of why the planet's powerful...
22 Aug 2019
A first-of-its-kind analysis of 'super-deep' diamonds from hundreds of kilometres below the Earth's surface has provided new clues about the...
22 Aug 2019
This new study redefines our understanding of how the concentration of methane in the atmosphere of Mars changes over time, and this helps us to solve the...
15 Aug 2019
The seven-year funding for Centres of Excellence ostensibly supports focused research across existing scientific communities but, as the Consortium for Ocean-...