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A white sand beach and turquoise water on Jaco Island with the forested Lautém coast behind
Explore

An hour from Darwin, a national park almost nobody has heard of

Timor-Leste's Nino Konis Santana National Park has just become the country's first UNESCO biosphere reserve. It has rainforest, a sacred island, cave paintings and Coral Triangle reefs, and almost nobody outside Timor has heard of it.

6 September 2026 · 2 min read
Pressure ridges of Antarctic sea ice near Scott Base under a pale sky
Global Good News

Above Antarctica, the sky is mending

Every September a hole opens in the sky above Antarctica. It is now among the smallest it has been since the early nineties.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
Turimetta Beach and its headland at first light, Sydney Northern Beaches
Explore

Turimetta hides in plain sight

Between Warriewood and Narrabeen there is a beach most people drive past, and a headland above it carrying a grassland that almost nowhere else still has.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
Kangaroo grass in seed, its dark seed heads catching the light
Sustainable Living

Kangaroo grass, milled into flour

The same kangaroo grass that carpets a Sydney headland is being milled into flour on Country, and it is turning up on some of the best tables in the land.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
A woman in a beach wheelchair beside a creek at Great Sand Dunes National Park
Sustainable Living

Everyone gets to the lookout

There are people whose whole volunteer job is making sure the track, the sand and the view are not just for those who can walk to them.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
A Mauritius kestrel perched on a branch, chestnut crown and spotted white breast
Conservation

Mauritius got its birds back

In 1974 there were four Mauritius kestrels left alive in the world. All four of them. Today there are more than four hundred.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
A whole pomegranate beside a cut piece showing the arils inside
Innovations

Pomegranate skin, pressed into leather

Turkey grows a great many pomegranates, and the peel has always been the part nobody wanted. Two people decided that was the interesting bit.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
Oyster beds exposed at low tide at Whitstable on the English coast
Global Good News

Norfolk is growing a reef again

Off the Norfolk coast this month, clay bricks began going down on the seabed. Each one arrives already carrying more than a hundred baby oysters.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
Ripe red cacao pods hanging from a branch in a green canopy
Sustainable Living

Chocolate with a postcode

New research with Far North Queensland's cocoa growers has found that half a chocolate bar's flavour comes from the place where the beans ferment, and Queensland's regions each taste different.

29 August 2026 · 2 min read
The Dajomes glassfrog, pea green with gold ringed eyes, facing the camera
Global Good News

A glass frog with an Olympic name

In a cloud forest reserve in Ecuador, a young biologist has found a frog new to science, green as a leaf above and see through below, and named her for the first Ecuadorian woman ever to win Olympic gold.

29 August 2026 · 2 min read