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One claim from the past week is based on a nuclear plant that hasn’t been built and another confuses the role of battery storage

The minister said the discovery was not cause for alarm

Some animals can live to a startlingly old age, from the famous 392-year-old “Greenland shark” to a 190-year-old tortoise in the Seychelles. Two science studies published last week brings us closer to understanding why some animal species can live for so long – far longer than humans.

A new high-resolution camera at the CSIRO is set to photograph one million plant specimens in nine months, as researchers look into how the natural world is changing.

CSIRO's national herbarium collection is being digitised

How should we conceive our day-to-day weather in the context of climate change, especially with a colder-than-normal start to winter?

The number of green hydrogen projects worldwide has increased more than three-fold in less than a year.

A new study predicts the changing climate will provide increased opportunities for the spread of novel viruses.

A cold start to winter has the News Corp newspaper and Sky News telling ‘alarmists’ to chill, but what is really going on with snowfall?

If foot-and-mouth disease reaches Australia, it will send a wrecking ball through the economy, as it did in the UK 20 years ago. So what is the plan to keep it out? And how would an outbreak be contained?

A former senior officer from the CSIRO is sentenced for fraud, after he spent more than $300,000 of the agency's money on items including a washing machine, a jet ski and two cars.