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...

16 Mar 2020

New international research has found a worrying change in the Indian Ocean's surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly...

3 Feb 2020

Strongly worded appeal comes as new energy market analysis predicts Australia will hit 50% renewable electricity by 2030

17 Jan 2020

Scietists find dust grains within a meteorite - which fell to Earth in the 1960s - that are as much as 7.5 billion years old. The oldest of the dust grains...

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...

10 Dec 2019

In 2020, The ANU will commence the search for a new Director for the Research School of Earth Sciences

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

When the heatwave hit Greenland in early August, Paul Tregoning from the Australian National University in Canberra was waiting for the first data from NASA...

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...

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...

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...