Making compost is a cornerstone of sustainable gardening, yet few of us understand the great science behind it.

You won’t come within cooee of a honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus) unless you’re in the south-west of Western Australia. It’s ...

Throughout this 40th anniversary year of Australian Geographic we’re looking back at a selection of stories we’ve run over the decades. This abridged excerpt is from a feature in AG 25, in Jan–Mar ...

Koala comeback. Conservationists from the Koala Clancy Foundation (KCF), in partnership with International Fund for Animal ...

Enter, the sea cucumber. There are more than 1,000 species of sea cucumber worldwide, with at least 160 found in Australian ...

A four-day hike traces the footsteps of the convicts and visionaries who tried and failed to tame an empire at the edge of ...

The story of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages is one of loss, resilience and now renewal.

Every year, millions of visitors stand at the clifftop lookouts along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road and gaze out at the Twelve ...

This is just one instalment of Australian Geographic‘s Deadly Dictionaries column, produced by AIATSIS. Each instalment features a dictionary celebrating a different First Nations language, ...

Kangaroos and wallabies dominate both our awareness and the data. Some 88 per cent of Australians say they’re conscious of ...

Cocaine pollution can make wild salmon swim twice as far and disperse more widely, new study reveals. Fish or sharks on cocaine might sound like something dreamed up in a Hollywood writers’ room, but ...