Environmentalists want to see a quick closure of Australia’s dirtiest power station by 2012. But workers in the area fear that Gippsland could collapse once more if the government turns its back on them.

When it comes to generating power, environmentalists have historically been staunchly anti-nuclear. However a new movement has embraced new nuclear power technology as the answer to climate change.Anna Watanabe investigates the Environmentalists for Nuclear party, a new minor party waiting to join Australia’s political system.

In a nation where voting is compulsory, it seems that not all of the entire eligible population has turned out for the event. Miran Hosny investigates why the younger generations are not turning up to rock the vote.

Deaths related to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease has more than doubled over the past ten years, according to new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Shiney Mehrotra reports.

As Australia gears towards the development of a national scheme to regulate e-waste, Australian landfills continue to pile up with electronic waste – some of which result in chemicals leaching into the ground. Clarizza Fernandez investigates.

Advertisements are becoming all pervasive in our lives today as advertisers find new ways to integrate them into our daily routines. But do they actually work? Eugenia Lee investigates the value of advertising and how it is evolving.

Scientists have joined the iPhone craze and are asking the general public to help them with research. Miran Hosny reports.

Even the smallest rise in temperatures and changes in seasonal timing can have affect on our environment. Jessica Black investigates how the world’s plants and animals are coping.

The Archibald Prize is one of the most prestigious events in Australia’s art world, but as Amy Yang reports, it wouldn’t be the Archibald if there wasn’t a bit of controversy.

It started as a joke when in 1995, a Manhattan psychiatrist named Ivan Goldberg coined something called Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), Steve Corner writes.