Carl Smith

The Fiji crested iguana — also known as Vokai — is one of the country’s most treasured species. You can see a picture of it on the country’s $5 bill and on the back of every dollar coin. But not only is it critically endangered, its native habitat is dwindling.

Meet the woman tracking ocean acidification in the Pacific — a rising danger that could destroy marine life and livelihoods.

The discovery of graphene earned researchers a Nobel Prize. But has the promise of wonderful new materials been realised?

Carl Smith introduces the people whose lives have been changed, and the innovators whose ideas and initiative are behind the remarkable developments in bionics.

The ACT will introduce a one-metre rule for motorists passing cyclists, with the minimum distance growing to 1.5 metres above 60kph.

Canberra’s annual kangaroo cull will go ahead after the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal rejected a challenge by an animal rights group. The ACT Government had planned to begin killing 1,600 eastern grey kangaroos on eight nature reserves in early May, in a bid to protect grassland from overgrazing. But Animal Liberation lodged a challenge with ACAT arguing there was no scientific evidence to prove reducing kangaroo numbers helped the environment.