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28 Jul 2022
In Semester 2, 2022, The Fenner School is teaching and co-hosting a series of new courses for Undergraduate and Masters students, and it's not too late to...
26 Jul 2022
Written by Tayanah O'Donnell, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University, first published in The Conversation. Republished with...
22 Jul 2022
To any informed reader, the idea of farming cold-ocean seabirds in the Australian desert is mind-numbingly silly. But this hypothetical idea helps us better...
22 Jul 2022
Scientists hope the belated listing of fires as a threat to forest species can stop the destructive use of hazard-reduction burning. By Karen Middleton.
21 Jul 2022
Experts say city’s expansion has put more people at risk because homes are being built on flood-prone land.
21 Jul 2022
In the long-delayed State of the Environment report released this week, there is one terrifying sentence: “Environmental degradation is now considered a threat...
19 Jul 2022
Three lessons from Australia’s ‘climate wars’ and how we can finally achieve better climate policy »
Australia’s long-lasting climate wars offer three painful lessons we shouldn’t ignore this time around.
18 Jul 2022
Ecologists fear the widespread loss of native mistletoe due to drought could leave nectar-feeding birds even more vulnerable.
18 Jul 2022
Campaigners warn of ‘disturbing trend’ of proposed mines falling just below the threshold requiring environmental impact statement
17 Jul 2022
What does it take to bring an extinct species back from the dead? Well, sometimes — a Woman's Day magazine.
16 Jul 2022
More than a dozen years later, and after detailed studies following the 2009 fires and again after the 2019-2020 Black Summer fires, the science shows that...
10 Jul 2022
While state government cools on once highly-touted developments, array of experts decry plans for any housing on floodplain.