12 Apr 2017

It is an honor to welcome this new class of exceptional women and men as part of our distinguished membership, said Don Randel, Chair of the Academy’s Board of...

1 Feb 2017

In 2017, the Research School of Biology celebrates 50 years of Biology at ANU.

12 Dec 2016

Remembering our colleague and friend, Sylvain Forêt and, on behalf of the CBA, our deepest condolences to his family.

14 Nov 2016

This gecko may have been isolated by this initial aridification of Australia long ago, and then persisted in its rocky refuge for millions of years. It is what...

10 Nov 2016

If you have engaged with the CBA in some way over the last 4+ years, let us know what you think.

20 Sep 2016

We've mapped the hotspots of eucalypt diversity and our study shows that by 2085 the hotspots will be in different places. We need to plan now to conserve...

20 Sep 2016

A new CSIRO Future Sciences Platform on environmental genomics, or Environomics, has been announced. With indicative funding of ~$4.5M over 2-3 years the

15 Sep 2016

The EBL is now fully operational and ready for ANU and CSIRO staff and students' next sequencing project.

8 Sep 2016

The positive impact of incorporating evolutionary biology concepts and tools into environmental policy development and decision-making was universally accepted...

29 Jul 2016

We are looking to foster advances essential to food security and environmental stewardship in the face of climate change, population growth and land degradation

13 Jul 2016

A new program to help address Australia’s high mammal extinction rates has just been announced.

30 Jun 2016

This study is one of the first to provide evidence that interdisciplinary research has lower funding success rates, and this pattern holds across different...