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“For the vast majority of plants, a balanced, all-purpose fertiliser will be fine” Shutterstock/Encierro Wander into any garden centre and you will find a wall of fertilisers, where colourful bottles promise perfect results for everything from lawns and roses to tree ferns and Japanese acers. But do home gardeners really need them? Let’s look at…

EPA Australians are already living with the consequences of climate change One and a half million Australians living in coastal areas are at risk from rising sea levels by 2050, a landmark climate report has warned. Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment predicted more frequent and severe climate hazards like floods, cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and…

Elizabeth Dawson and Helen BriggsBBC climate and science team Aleksey Maro Understanding more about the diet of wild chimps could help explain human attraction to alcohol Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. They say this is evidence humans…

Artist’s reconstruction of the pachycephalosaur Zavacephale rinpoche Masaya Hattori A dome-headed dinosaur found in Mongolia had a serious weapon on top of its skull, a mouth full of no-nonsense teeth and cartoon-like giant eye sockets. The new species, named Zavacephale rinpoche, lived about 108 million years ago in the early Cretaceous and is a member…