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Researcher, Xuemei Bai, stands in front of the Fenner building with a grass tree beside her.

Path to prosperity for planet and people if Earth’s critical resources are better shared: report.

Cities and businesses have the power to play a crucial role and become the “stewards” of critical Earth systems by demonstrating how they can reduce their environmental impact on the planet.

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A Fenner researcher, Shoshana Rapley, kneels with her dog on her leg and looks at her, with woodland in the background.

A nose for ecology

How an ecologist's dog transformed her PhD project.

Meet Koda

A researcher shines her spotlight into the edge of a dam at night.

When you Kermit to the bit

why frogs are part of this scientist’s identity now

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Tracks of a dusky hopping mouse found in red sand.

Monday, 30 Sep 2024

Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project

For many years, scientists have been working with Indigenous people in the desert to record these observations in a systematic way. New research collates this data.

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