The Latest Breaking News from CSIRO

From rainforests to savannas, ecosystems on land absorb almost 30% of the carbon dioxide human activities release into the atmosphere. These ecosystems are critical to stop the planet warming beyond 1.5℃ this century – but climate change may be weakening their capacity to offset global emissions.

The former chair of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, Andrew Macintosh, says Australia's carbon offset schemes lack integrity.

Motion thanking community should not be ‘political’ and reference to climate change was ‘piss poor’, councillor says

Changing diet trends, a fast-growing population and international trade opportunities could help Australia become "a global delicatessen" for protein, according to CSIRO.

In 2019, my colleagues and I discovered spooky glowing rings in the sky using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope in Western Australia. The rings were unlike anything seen before, and we had no idea what they were.

Odd radio circles, or ORCs, continue to puzzle us, but new data from South Africa's MeerKAT telescope are helping us solve the mystery.

MORNING BRIEFING: Flood-affected Lismore residents are protesting outside Prime Minister Scott Morrison's home, calling for action on climate change.

Plastic-eating bugs and compostable bottle caps are just part of a new mission from CSIRO to cut Australia's plastic waste by 80 per cent by 2030.

Zed Seselja wants unused CSIRO land to be released to the ACT public.

The CSIRO unveils a new $2.1 million research facility in Canberra aimed at helping firefighters and other authorities better understand and predict bushfire behaviour.

The world-class laboratory at CSIRO Black Mountain features a combustion tunnel and a 12-metre-tall wind tunnel to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of embers.