Every story we have published, newest first.
From Hurghada to Marsa Alam, the reefs of the Red Sea shrug off heat that bleaches coral elsewhere. Now they have a fund of their own, help for the small businesses that live by them, and mooring buoys so boats stop dropping anchor on them.
Published in Nature this week: a plastic film that is brilliantly white and sheds water like a lotus leaf, with no titanium dioxide and none of the forever chemicals that usually do that job.
On a treatment lagoon at Cowes, a floating garden the size of a tennis court and a half has spent two years quietly doing the work of machinery, and the numbers from the world first trial are in.
Festival of the Winds has turned Bondi Beach into a moving painting every September since 1978. This year's is today, Sunday 13 September, it is free, and the best way in is the train and a walk down the hill.
Two voyages to the seamounts around Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands brought home more than a thousand kinds of animal, and 149 of them had never been seen by science.
France has stopped selling most copper fungicides, the standby of organic vineyards for a century. Into the gap steps a spray from Oxfordshire made of three plant oils, wrapped in yeast cells so the rain sets them free.
A yeast first found on grape skins eats surplus loaves and fills itself with fat. A company born in a Bath laboratory is now brewing it by the hundred thousand litres near Liverpool, and the oil behaves just like palm oil.
In the far west of Victoria, a small trust asked its supporters to help buy a drained wetland and bring the water back. They did it in 2025, then did it again this winter, and a flower thought lost from the district turned up in the reeds.
POEM FOREST plants a native tree in Wollongong for every nature poem a student or teacher sends in. More than 22,800 are already growing, and this year's round closes on 25 September.
Spring is here, and so are four things worth having on the bench or in the pantry: a trowel pressed from bottle caps, a nursery of the native plants our birds and insects depend on, native flavours for the pantry, and furniture that comes back to be made again.
On 1 July, five new marine reserves came into force along the coast south of Dunedin, three hundred and eight square kilometres of sea where nothing is taken, and Kāi Tahu rangers now share the keeping of them.
Tallaganda lost many of its old hollow trees in the fires. Scientists hung 120 insulated boxes in their place, greater gliders moved in and raised joeys, and now men's sheds are building the next batch.
