ABC Environment

Specific temperature-related calls made in the final days before hatching alters the behaviour of the developing chick.

There are fewer numbats than there are pandas or orangutans in the world, and keeping the captive breeding numbats in peak condition is a full time job.

It's been a year since the Iranian nuclear deal was reached. Was it worth it? What if anything has changed in not only Iran but across the Middle East?

A project enlisting citizen scientists to identify Australian wildlife is helping conservation, and reconnecting people with nature. And we follow the day of a scientist through Snapchat.

A fleet of solar-powered drones promise internet connectivity to the developing world — but do they come with a catch?

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Former US Secretary of Defence, William J. Perry, warns that the risk of nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War and is growing every year. 

An exploration of cultural attitudes to human waste.

In the far south-west of New South Wales we meet a team of environmental rangers who are trying to bring country back to life by coaxing animal populations back, constructing 'fish hotels' to keep the fry safe from predators and protecting cultural heritage sites.

Jodie Rummer is modelling scenarios for the world’s oceans by the end of the century and investigating whether and how fish might be able to adapt to warmer waters.

Bob Beale says the Earth is sending strong messages that things are seriously out of balance.

Prior to 1956, women were banned form being in Antarctica. Today women lead major research institutes in Antarctic science.

Behind the scenes at Perth Zoo is a room full of small glass aquariums. And within each enclosure is one of Australia's rarest marsupials. The dibbler.

This week it's all about climate - from the parched Queensland channel country, to rural communities building their own renewable energy projects.

Climate change plots, characters and product placement could fire audiences to act on climate change.

British nuclear testing on Australian ground: cover-ups, aftershocks and contamination.

David Attenborough has become a household name having taken viewers to every part of the globe, sharing the intimate workings of the natural world. As he celebrates his 90th birthday, David reflects on his life on Earth, the changes he has observed, and the challenges that confront a world full of people.

The ABC’s citizen science project allows everyone to join in the identification of a million wild animals.

It is covered in flamboyantly coloured sausages, it’s a hermaphrodite, breathes through its skin, goes through metamorphoses AND this new species needs a name.