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Science

The price of overconsumption and the lack of recycling plastics has created The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a soupy mix of plastics floating around in the Pacific Ocean.

Australia’s Threatened Species - do we want to lose them?

Saturday the 24th October was the International Day of Climate change and the United Nations Day.

My trip to Borneo to learn, research and film orang-utans.

Will dust storms happen more often? What are the impacts?

Australian Museum mineralogist Ross Pogson took no time at all to analyse the mineral content of the dust that swept across Sydney this morning, enveloping the city in an eerie red blanket.

Find out about a new technique that can build three-dimensional models of the internal anatomy of microsnails and other tiny specimens.

A virtual platform is being created to unlock the Australian Museum's world-renowned Pacific Collection for a global audience.

Scientists and volunteers, with support from government and business, joined forces to undertake a species discovery survey of the Charles Darwin Reserve in Western Australia.

To learn more about the types and distributions of polychaete species inhabiting Australia’s coral reefs, Museum scientists are conducting a census, using specimens from museum collections and new material to be collected during expeditions in 2009.

The International Children’s and Youth Conference on the Environment. Daejeon, South Korea provides an opportunity for adults, youth and children to work together on climate change.

Seoul city and the week ahead for the International Children’s Conference on the Environment.

The International Children's Conference on the Environment run by UNEP (United Nations Environment Program).

Quarantine scientists recently attended an Australian Museum workshop to improve their skills at identifying invasive Diptera, a large order of insects, many of which pose a threat to Australia's biosecurity.

A research team led by Dr Lin Sutherland, a Senior Fellow in Geoscience at the Australian Museum, has completed a major study on 'genetic' signatures in Australian sapphires and rubies. The study combines precise trace element