The Latest Breaking News from CSIRO

Specialised cameras are giving scientists a rare window into the world of deep-sea life, helping "shed light on places that are deep and dark and really important".

A new diet from CSIRO is backed by years of research and helps break down one barrier many have when dieting - cravings.

Decimated by relentless drought, the population of the Australian insect is recovering but remains fragile

With the land home to the Golden Sun Moth, the development will need to pass environmental checks.

A decades-long vision to drought-proof arid western Queensland has been abandoned by the state government after an expert review declared it completely unviable.

Despite repeated reviews of John Bradfield’s idea to use flood waters to irrigate central Australia, the scheme has not been shown to be feasible

A massive tooth recently uncovered in a biodiversity survey off the WA coast offers a rare glimpse of the megalodon shark, an ancient ocean predator that had no peer.

Australia is stepping into space exploration, beginning with the construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory.

Floods are critically important for many plant and animal species, but scientists fear back-to-back extremes of flood, fire and drought are causing significant environmental damage — and say we don't know the full picture.