Oceania Australia The "brumbies", Australian wild horses, are estimated at around 19.000 in Kosciuszko National Park in the south-east of the country; state authorities in New South Wales intend to reduce them to 3.000 by mid-2027 firing shotguns from helicopters
Oceania Australia Over 25.000 images taken by divers, tour operators and pleasure boats during the annual Great Barrier Reef Census in Australia, now in its fourth year, are being analysed
Oceania Australia Australia's overall fiscal balance, at -0,9% of gross domestic product in 2023, is the second strongest among G20 countries, behind only Canada, according to the IMF's latest fiscal monitoring
Oceania Australia Examining hundreds of bones collected over decades in Winton, west-central Queensland, paleontologists have described 12 new specimens belonging to sauropods
Oceania Australia Researchers at Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics affirm that solar panel waste problem is more pressing than previously thought as new report contradicts earlier findings that significant volumes of PV waste would not appear until at least 2030