WA researchers have found the land management practices of Indigenous Australians throughout history may have altered the current climate of the state’s north west resulting in a hotter and longer dry season.

PHYCOLOGIST Dr John Huisman has discovered three new genera and up to 50 new species of marine algae, all endemic to waters off the North West coast.

AN albino trapdoor spider discovered by chance in Northam has made it into the National Geographic editor’s 10 weirdest life-forms of 2011.

THE Swan River Trust and Department of Water are monitoring Halophila ovalis in the Swan Canning Riverpark in order to create a seagrass assessment protocol and determine whether seagrass can be used to assess the estuary’s health. 

THERE are still many uncategorised animal species to be discovered according to a West Australian Herpetologist.

POEMS, drawings, memories and ancient stories all stirred up emotions and a deep need for Western Australians to dig up their long-forgotten endemic sense of place—their endemophilia—at Murdoch’s Institute for Social Sustainability (ISS)’s last week seminar.