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The Murray River near Renmark, South Australia
Innovations

Your super just bought a battery beside the Murray

Two million nurses, teachers, carers and public servants now own a share of South Australia's biggest battery, sitting on one hectare near Mannum, through the funds that hold their retirement savings.

9 September 2026 · 2 min read
A coho salmon in red spawning colours over river stones
Global Good News

Thirty thousand salmon came home to the Mendocino coast

Twenty five years of pulling out culverts, laying logs and letting creeks bend again, and last winter the most endangered coho in California came back in numbers nobody working on those rivers had ever seen.

9 September 2026 · 2 min read
A red marine buoy on calm water
Innovations

Titanium that floats, printed in Melbourne

Metal lattices are wonderfully light and always sink. An RMIT team in Melbourne has printed a titanium one that floats, shrugs off seawater, and is stronger than the steel and plastic in every jetty and buoy.

9 September 2026 · 1 min read
A white candle resting on a round disc of mycelium packaging
Innovations

In a dark room in Auckland, the packaging is growing itself

Mushroom Material feeds fungus roots on wood chips and cardboard, dries the result into little white marshmallows, and presses them into the shapes polystyrene used to fill. It composts at home in under three months.

9 September 2026 · 2 min read
A White's Seahorse holding to seaweed on the harbour floor
Conservation

Celebrating all of our amazing fathers

It is Father's Day in Australia, and to all the fathers out there, we hope you have the best day. One underwater father we would like you to meet is the endangered White's Seahorse, a doting dad who takes care of all the babies, with little hotels helping to take his kind off the endangered list.

6 September 2026 · 4 min read
A group of children in helmets and high visibility vests gathered on their bikes before riding to school
Sustainable Living

A bike bus is a school run with a playlist

Started by a Barcelona neighbourhood and a Portland PE teacher, the bike bus has become the loveliest way to get to school: a moving line of kids on bikes, parents front and back, music on, cars left at home. New school terms in the north are starting the same way this month.

6 September 2026 · 2 min read
Eastern grey kangaroos standing in dry grass at Majura Nature Reserve near Canberra
Innovations

A road sign that can see a kangaroo coming

On a stretch of the Monaro Highway south of Canberra, cameras that see heat and shape are watching the verges for kangaroos, and when one steps close the sign ahead lights up: animal on road, slow down.

6 September 2026 · 2 min read