Australian farmers have lost an average of thirty thousand dollars a year in profits over the past twenty years due to climate change. 

In its latest report, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) found a decline in rainfall from 2001-2021 subjecting farmers to lower returns. 

The report has also made projections about the next 30 years finding the impact of climate change to be most severe on the edge of WA’s north cropping zone, parts of NSW, and central Queensland.

An underwater archaeological mission in Egypt's Bay of Aboukir has uncovered an extremely rare ship, believed to be over 2200 years old. 

Archaeologists from the Hilti Foundation's Franck Goddio underwater team were exploring the ancient Thonis-Heracleion site, when they came across a Ptolemaic warship.

Many special artifacts were found at the site where the ship was re-discovered.

Gold treasures were buried deep, preserved underneath the waves by wet clay. 

A French dad has built a robotic exoskeleton to help his wheelchair-bound son walk. 

Fastened to his shoulders, chest, waist, knees and feet, the exoskeleton allows Oscar, who has a genetic neurological condition, to walk across rooms and turn around through voice activation. 

The exoskeletons have been sold to dozens of hospitals in France but are not yet available to private individuals.

Some of Queensland’s first hydrogen-powered cars have hit the streets and are revving their way towards a zero-emissions travel revolution.

Hydrogen Minister Mick de Brenni said the arrival of five hydrogen-powered Hyundai NEXOs takes the Palaszczuk Government’s fleet of zero-emission vehicles to 60 of a planned 144 electric vehicles in total by year's end, backing a sector that is a key part of Queensland’s economic recovery plan.

Queenslanders will soon see the five Hyundais join the growing number of electric vehicles in the government fleet.

The number of fire ant nests plaguing Brisbane backyards have skyrocketed, with confirmed cases five times higher than in 2014.

Fire ant nest sites have risen from nine hundred in 2014 to a reported eight thousand six hundred in 2020.

Head of the National Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program, Mark Furner says, “The number of properties with confirmed infestation has increased predominantly in eastern areas, where the program has not yet commenced the eradication or clearance phases.”

Australia's efforts to close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage failed following an analysis by a Productivity Commission revealed stark failures.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders born between 2015 and 2017 are expected to live 8.6 fewer years amongst boys, and 7.8 fewer years amongst girls than non-Indigenous children.

While the gap has lessened compared to a decade prior, Australia is not on track to close it by 2031 with other aims such as reduction in suicide rates, incarceration, and children out-of-home care are failing to progress efficiently.

The Australian 2021 census is expected to be like no other in the history of data collection. 

Demographer Liz Allen, from the Australian National University's Centre for Social Research and Methods said, "Census 2021 is among the most impactful censuses of our time, not just because of what it collects and the timing of its collection, but what it means for our future."

This is because of how it rolls out, what it will say, and how it will help inform Australia's ongoing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to QUT Researches, social media channels such as WhatsApp and WeChat could play a larger role to help the construction industry adapt to COVID related changes like flexible work arrangements and smaller on site teams.

Dr Carol Hon from the QUT Faculty of Engineering said “The construction industry is traditionally slow to adopt new information and communication technologies, but COVID lockdowns and the need for better communication across a fragmented workforce have driven the need for social media use,”

Outside the Tokyo Olympics, COVID infections have increased to records never seen before in the Japanese capital.

Doctors are fearing a collapse of the medical system as the delta variant fuelled the Olympic cities' growing outbreak with 3000 new cases recorded yesterday.

Tokyo had already declared a fourth state of emergency this month to run until after the Olympics.

As Australian residents and businesses continue to battle a growing range of international cyber attacks, one Queensland city is planning to become the safest in the country. 

The world-class technology called Dark Fibre has already rolled out across the Gold Coast, with experts saying it's impossible to hack. 

 ICT forum committee member Lee Hames says “data security is the number one vulnerability right now in business, and the Gold Coast is offering a secure, safe haven.”