By Matt McDowell The recent massive firestorms that incinerated much of Australia’s vegetation has left people reeling, but the impacts on our native flora a...

By Carley Fuller Araribóia indigenous territory in Maranhão state, north-eastern Brazil, has been described as an island of green amid a sea of deforestation...

By Rebecca Wheatley Over the past five months, huge areas of Australia have been devastated by fire and drought. As of writing, over 10 million hectares of l...

By Luke Yates The title of this blog post is a line that captured my attention while reading the recently published book, Range, by David Epstein. It’s a boo...

By Tessa Smith Like all good netizens, I have at least once gotten into an argument with strangers on the internet.  The argument in question was about wheth...

By Kasirat Turfi Kasfi When I sat down to brainstorm a topic to write for the DEEP blog, I thought what would be that one thing that interest me and the rest...

By Barry Brook I’ve long been interested in sustainable energy systems. In 2008 I co-wrote a popular book on nuclear energy, have authored lots of data/model...

By Cristian Montalvo Mancheno Land-use change is one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss (1). Setting aside protected areas (PAs) has been the main str...

By Stefania Ondei Bushfires have been ravaging Tasmania for more than a month. This is not an isolated event, but rather the latest episode in a series of in...

By Shane Morris As I watched “Arrival”, a movie about aliens descending to Earth and their interaction with a human linguist, I got thinking about the scienc...

By Elise Ringwaldt In 2017, I was invited to visit The Breakthrough Institute and attend their Dialogue: Democracy in the Anthropocene. Discussions at this e...

By Sanghyun Hong Although it is a little bit late, we are doing something to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, aren’t we? We are installing on-shore and off-s...

By Tristan Derham If you are from Tasmania you have likely heard your mate’s story about the time they, or their friend’s friend, saw a thylacine. Hiking alo...

By Matt Fielding When we think of fossils, we typically think of dinosaurs and giant mammals. However, Australia was also home to more than 90 known extinct ...

– INTERROGATIONS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF FLIGHTLESS BIRDS – By Lucile Lévêque The popular ideas we have about the way birds became flightless can seem straigh...

By Emily Flies Historically, cities were considered centres for filth, disease, violence and amoral behaviour. Even today, urbanization has been linked to di...

By Matt McDowell Since European settlement in 1788, Australia has had the highest mammal extinction rate in the world. At least one third of Australia’s orig...

By Hanh Nguyen According to the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights Report (2002), scientists at the South African Council for Scientific and Industri...