The recent Chinese heavy presence off the Australian coast prompts readers to question our defence capabilities.

Here on the Surfcoast it’s been blowing easterlies for a little while. When that happens, a build-up of seaweed overtakes the ...

A heartbreaking photo from southern Australia has captured the devastating impact of plastic pollution, showing the harmful ...

Don Kinzler shares information about research that shows even the slightest touch activates a major genetic defense response, ...

Scientists in India have uncovered the fossilized remains of a snake so enormous it dwarfs its modern relatives. Measuring a ...

Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, poultry have tested positive for the virus in Australia, Nepal and Turkey.

Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

With numerous cases of avian influenza appearing in Ontario, experts are scrambling to prevent a potential mass outbreak. Last December, seven poultry farms in southern Ontario were quarantined due to ...

Researchers studying birds and the food they eat are now finding much larger volumes of the toxic PFAS chemicals than before. The substances either ...

Nigel French, an infectious disease expert at Massey University in New Zealand, who has spoken extensively on the impact of ...

Sports tourism is booming and with Melbourne getting revved for the F1 season opener, we look at travel companies lining up ...

Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are ...