ABC Environment

It's been said we know more about the back side of the moon than we do about parts of the Earth's oceans.

When nature documentaries show elephants at a waterhole, Peter Langdon goes crook at the telly. He wants them to zoom in on the bird sitting in the tree in background. [This repeat program is carefully selected from the Off Track archive for your listening pleasure]

Beer coasters were the inspiration for a new website which tracks Australia's climate change.

What does it mean to live sustainably in our suburbs?

A reported quarter of a million farmed salmon escaped from their water pens off the coast of Bruny Island after a storm damaged nets earlier this month.

This month's Federal Budget pledged an unprecedented $444 million to a single organisation — the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

In this Background Briefing investigation reporter Bronwyn Adcock speaks to community leaders in the city of Dubbo who are fed up with drug addicts having no other option than to be sent to jail.

Background Briefing has uncovered evidence about the NSW Ambulance officers stealing fentanyl.

The NSW Government wants to a avoid a cull, but some scientists say it's needed.

Atmospheric detectives have discovered a mysterious rise in emissions of ozone destructive CFC's

Family sells off a vintage machinery collection; go fly fishing in Tasmania; indigenous language comes alive at Taree High; and a local shearing clothing brand turns 30.

The about face has angered conservationists who say it will trash the delicate Alpine environment.

Most of us feel the itch of the primitive from time to time—to run without shoes, try a paleo diet, or just ditch the smartphone. The primitivist ideal exerts a seductive pull in tech-obsessed contemporary western society, but is the ideal based on a highly questionable set of philosophical assumptions?

Insect Armageddon. Is it happening...or not?

Scientists strap tiny bum-bags onto geckos in the middle of the night on an outback cattle station. They are tracking how cattle grazing impacts tiny lizards. PLUS BONUS #FieldWorkFail

Vanessa Pirotta will represent Australia at the Famelab final in Cheltenham.

Family sells off a vintage machinery collection; go fly fishing in Tasmania; indigenous language comes alive at Taree High; and a local shearing clothing brand turns 30.

From a tiny sound recorder in a Victorian sheep paddock comes a startling array of sounds - some identifiable and some complete mysteries. Relax and let this earworm do its work.

Whales are the giants of the marine realm, and we've only recently discovered why they're so huge.

The land clearing debate continues in farming communities across Queensland in the wake of the Labor Government's decision to pass laws banning the broad scale clearing of remnant vegetation.