Tory Shepherd

· 8-min read A week of gushing about gas at News Corp climaxed on Friday with the “news” that the gas in the Beetaloo Basin could power Australian homes for 400 years.

Global heating, pesticides and habitat loss are devastating insect populations – but in Australia we're already seeing summer bug eruptions, both wanted and unwanted.

As well the migration of flies from the bush, we can welcome swarms of butterflies, shiny Christmas beetles and ladybirds

Coverage of the extraordinary events in Syria have filled the front pages in the UK, US and Australia

From Secret Santa to DIY and tips for affordable wrapping paper, here’s our guide to a thrifty and environmentally conscious Christmas

Newly appointed ABC managing director, Hugh Marks, thinks Nine Entertainment's annus horribilis will make him a “better leader”.

Chair of the national broadcaster describes appointee to five-year term as ‘unusually well qualified’

With many Australians still worried about the cost of living, experts say bargain shopping – and chipping away at a culture of excess – can help

In 1974, months before Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin, Bob Leicester was working with Greg Reardon as part of a CSIRO team called Keep Your Roof On.

Roofing flying through the air, windows shattering, the terror as houses disintegrated – these are the motifs woven through the stories of Tracy survivors