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The use of many chemical fumigants in agriculture have been demonstrated to be harmful to human health and the environment and therefore banned from use. Now, in an effort to reduce waste from the agricultural industry and reduce the amounts of harmful chemicals used, researchers have investigated using organic byproducts from beer production and farming as a potential method to disinfest soils, preserve healthy soil microorganisms and increase crop yields.

Our research is deeply concerning because it signals there are no quick fixes to the ongoing fire crisis afflicting Australia, which is being driven by relentless climate change.

Images intended to help open up the outback to mining following World War II instead deliver a lesson from the last generation of Indigenous people to live in the Great Sandy Desert on how to protect life and the land.

There are several ways that surface gravity on Earth could change. We wouldn’t like most of them. If a mini black hole collided with Earth and didn’t pass straight through, it would sink to the planet’s centre. Gravity would soar as the entire planet is pulled into the hole. It would probably get very hot too, so no one would survive to see the final spaghettification as we got within a few kilometres of the hole, when we are pulled apart by intense gravity gradients.

If someone asked you what the worst year in human history was, what would you guess? 1347 CE was pretty bad. That's the year the Black Death seriously hit Europe. Any of the years of the Holocaust, between 1941 and 1945. Or 1918, the year of the star

One of the most common misconceptions about sign language is that it's the same wherever you go. That's simply not the case. With that in mind, let's take a look at 9 examples of sign languages from around the world.

Pristine areas in the Amazon and Siberia may expand with animal reintroductions, scientists say

Scientists have devised a new way of looking at habitat loss on Earth, finding that 97 percent of Earth's land area may no longer be ecologically intact.

The scorching destruction of Australia's Black Summer bushfires between 2019 and 2020 provided an ominous glimpse of fire's reach in our hotter, dryer world, and the impact of the unprecedented inferno is still being measured.

If you bought it, it’s yours and you should be able to get someone to mend it whether it is a tractor, a phone or a trebuchet

The fast-growing tree, native to China, is also a "motel" for harmful non-native insects, like the spotted lanternfly.

Hundreds of people are evacuating coastal areas after a series of quakes shook the region.

New research in Brazil highlights how distinctive the "living skin" of the planet can be.

About 41,000 years ago, something remarkable happened: Earth’s magnetic field flipped and, for a temporary period, magnetic north was south and magnetic south was north.

Dozens of frogs, fish, orchids and other species may no longer exist due to humanity’s effects on the planet

It could mean a "negative" leap second.

Excitement as DNA barcoding technique leads to unmasking of new species tempered with fear that some are already at risk of extinction

In 2017, NASA space probes detected a massive, human-made 'barrier' surrounding Earth.

Using years of data collected from ice-covered habitats all over the world, a Montana State University team has discovered new insights into the processes that support microbial life underneath ice sheets and glaciers, and the role those organisms play in perpetuating life through ice ages and, perhaps, in seemingly inhospitable environments on other planets.