Victoria’s Zoos, Museums and Botanic Gardens are more than interesting places for people to visit - they are also engines of cutting-edge research and field work.

Join us for a special online event, streamed live from Victoria’s Parliament House during National Science...

The tradition of Western science is barely 400 years old, but we still call it a tradition. Around the world, a vast number of research institutions maintain learning traditions with this distinctly European cultural legacy. But there are other, valid ways of understanding the world...

This World Environment Day, join leaders from government, industry, the community and academia, who will provide their perspectives on protecting and recovering Victoria’s biodiversity.

"It's obvious in science that we can't always give absolute answers, we know this. That's the nature of science; science is also evolving, so those answers can change. But what do the public expect? When they're making choices based on risk, it is very challenging...

Nature-harnessing technologies are key to effectively and sustainably restoring contaminated ecosystems, using naturally occurring microorganisms to clean up contamination from oil and other organic pollutants in soils, groundwater and water bodies. The bioremediation process both destroys contaminants and restores an ecosystem’s functional microbiome.

ACCLIMATISE, from composer Catriona Nguyen-Robertson:

"I wrote this choral piece for Inspiring Victoria's 2021 ACCLIMATISE program to highlight environmental changes that are already happening, so that it might spark change among people. It touches on the melting ice sheets of Antarctica,...

Nature-harnessing technologies are key to effectively and sustainably restoring contaminated ecosystems, using naturally occurring microorganisms to clean up contamination from oil and other organic pollutants in soils, groundwater and water bodies. The bioremediation process both destroys contaminants and restores an ecosystem’s microbiome.

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