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3 articles

- Environment
Australia’s Secret Rescue of Ancient Trees Offers an Insight Into Evolution
- By Brian Gallagher
- January 17, 2020
When I read that more than a billion animals had lost their lives to bushfires still raging in Australia, I froze, staring at the incomprehensible figure on my screen. A sort of sinking feeling came. Scientists made the estimate from the numbers of animals that have died from previous land-clearing practices. It is dismaying to […]
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The Last Drop of Water in Broken Hill
- By Michael Green
- June 22, 2015
In the Australian outback, the future of drought has come early.
- Zoology
Cats Are Not the Best Defenders of Ecological Health
- By Charlie Nichols
- November 15, 2013
A feral cat prowling among baby penguins on Macquarie Island, south of mainland Australia.Geoff Copson / Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . After a cat loses its last aesthetic and behavioral traits characteristic of a kitten, it also loses much of its appeal […]