ENVIRONMENT

Home theatre systems, smart phones, game consoles and computers are transforming our homes into modern hives of connectivity and entertainment.

TEGAN DOLSTRA has more to offer than the romance and drama dished out in gossip magazines. It has tips on how to pick an ideal wingman, what girls are truly after, and fiddler crabs based on a recent discovery.

Reseachers from the University of Western Australia are studying the potential impact of climate change and altered hydrology on a major Pilbara wetland.

The completion of the genome sequence of the saltwater crocodile offers a more accurate selection of “breeders” which could take place as soon as the eggs hatch.

An acceleration of a certain chemical reaction along a nanotube turns out could generate power.

Another fresh war is brewing between Australia's supermarket giants. From fresh produce, Coles and Woolworths are now battling for the title of being the number one supporter of sustainable fish species.

If you're concerned about how fast robotic technology is developing then this should set alarm bells off. Robots can now eat biofuel, drink dirty water and excrete the waste.

More and more Aussies are avoiding toxic products when they shop for cleaning products.

A few hundred million years from now the Earth will have a vastly different geography. A new prediction for the future sees the Americas and Asia fusing together at the north to form one supercontinent called Amasia.

Researchers have found new forms of life that are totally unkown in underwater caves in the Bahamas called “blue holes.” These caves can provide clues on how life evolved not only on Earth but possibly on alien worlds, researchers said.

By end February, residents and travellers plying the routes of China's municipality of Beijing will slowly get to experience inhaling cleaner air as the municipality government undertakes to introduce the first batch of liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered public buses.

From 165 million years in the past the mating call of the prehistoric katydids can now be heard again thanks to the efforts of an international team of scientists.

It's too soon to say if Russian scientists are the first people to reach the buried Antarctic lake, according to Valery Lukin, director of the Russian Antarctic program.

UN investigating reports of illegal mining for ice and cites claims of ice theft from the Jorge Montt glacier in Chile.

CEBU, Philippines - A 6.8 magnitude quake near the islands of Cebu and Negros in southern Philippines on Monday at 11:00 a.m.

Experts at the University of Southern Queensland will employ the online virtual world Second Life in a bid to disseminate information on future climate changes they managed to predict to regional farmers through out the world.

Australians could be exposed to an increased risk from toxic contamination due to flooding and other effects of climate change.

Scientists can't predict the exact time when a volcano will erupt but clues from an ancient super-volcano explosion could reveal ways to calculate when the next massive eruption.

NASA’s prediction that the sun’s next 11-year activity phase or “Cycle 25: will be one of the weakest in centuries and is likely to decrease until 2100, has led some scientists to foresee a “mini ice age” in the future.

A start-up company has developed super thin solar cell that could be peeled away. This new technique could make solar cells more efficient and could mean cheaper solar power.

For scientists the lure of thermonuclear fusion has been incredibly attractive. Thermonuclear fusion held the promise of cheap, clean and unlimited energy. Research in the field has split into many disciplines, one of these is the experiments in the hot fusion field called "acoustic inertial confinement fusion."

You want to be greener, but you just can’t afford that hybrid car right now and setting up a compost heap in your studio apartment just isn’t an option. Don’t worry, we get it. Going green in 2012 can be as easy as making small lifestyle changes that will add up to a big difference for our planet.

The United Nations has recognized Australia’s management of the Great Barrier Reef to exemplify sustainable marine management in a 223-page report which calls for an “ever-green revolution for the 21st century.

A new study showed that concentrations of microplastic in the marine environment, which were traced mostly from synthetic clothes, could be eaten by animals and enter the food chain.

A leading scientist from The University of Western Australia says human kind is set to face dire consequences as the first signs of climate change manifest in the Arctic.

Man’s increasing taste for warm-blooded marine mammals such as dolphins, porpoises and manatees could lead to the destruction of marine life, according to a new study.

With the cost of heating oil showing no signs of decreasing, many homeowners, particularly in the Northeast, are dusting off their hearths and relying on wood to heat their homes during the winter.

The solution to the world's energy needs could be in seaweed. A team with Bio Architecture Lab announced that they have found an enzyme that could be used to convert seaweed into its constituent sugars that in turn could be converted into affordable renewable fuels.

Researchers from the University of Bristol have created the world's first magnetic soap. The revolutionary soap could find applications in cleaning oil spills and waste water.