According to the UN, a volcanic eruption in the eastern democratic of Congo has left more than twenty thousand people homeless. 

The Saturday eruption killed dozens and destroyed hundreds of homes, with lava stopping three hundred metres shy of the Goma airport. 

US President Joe Biden has asked intelligence officials to redouble their investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Victorian health officials are reviewing whether further restrictions are needed to respond to a growing COVID-19 outbreak in Melbourne.

The total number of cases in the new cluster is 15 - more cases than the outbreak that prompted Melbourne’s five-day lockdown in February. 

Adani has reported an 82 per cent decline in numbers of black-throated finch birds at their Carmichael coal mine site from 2018 to 2019. 

The Black-throated Finch Management Plan 2020 indicates the number of endangered birds in the region dropped from one thousand and 26 in 2018 to just one hundred and 85 in 2019.

A school in outback Queensland is teaching the local Aboriginal language in a bid to bring back an endangered dialect. 

The Gunggari language program, taught by local indigenous elders, could act as a blueprint in other outback schools. 

Callide Power Station in central Queensland will likely remain offline until the end of next week. 

This follows the explosion and fire that left nearly half a million homes without power on Tuesday afternoon.   

Queensland town of Oakey is looking to recover from groundwater contamination of the potentially harmful chemicals PFAS five years ago that sent the economy plummeting.

The PFAS contamination of groundwater, came from the neighbouring Defence force base and  left house values almost worthless.

Travel restrictions will return to Queensland tomorrow in the wake of Victoria's COVID outbreak.  Queensland Health has declared the local government area of Whittlesea City a hotspot from 1:00am Thursday.

From tomorrow, only Queensland residents who have been in the region since Tuesday May 11, will be allowed to enter the state but they will be required to complete hotel quarantine.

A University of New South Wales research team calculates, there are 50 billion individual wild birds and more than 9,700 (nine thousand and seven hundred)  different bird species in the world.

The researchers used data collected by 600,000 six hundred thousand citizen scientists to come to the figure in the world-first study.