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We're going on a beetle hunt
This is a story about what it's like to tackle an entirely new problem, so nothing is easy. Not even catching some beetles.
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Disability advocate Marcus Dadd: ‘I hope I can inspire people to chase their dreams’
Fenner graduate and disability advocate Marcus Dadd has a passion for inclusive and sustainable practices in agriculture.
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Australia’s summer weather heats up
Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick gives us the run down of what is expected to be Australia's hottest hummer on record.
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A team of three postdoctoral researchers at The Fenner School have developed a web app that uses satellite observations to help Australian farmers better manage water use and storage for irrigation.
- Education story
For two ANU Fenner School students working from overseas, it takes three things to survive teaching and learning from lockdown.
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Only one in five people sought medical attention but half reported anxiety, depression and sleep loss.
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As winner of the 2021 National Young Landcare Leadership Award, Ms Gilbert intends to use the recognition to help promote caring for country methods passed on by her parents.
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As anyone who even just written a short essay can attest, writing a book is no easy task. How’d he do it? A rigidly-self-enforced daily target of at least 500 words a day, walking the dog along Ginninderra Creek, and a deep personal change that came from writing from a growing personal relationship with the land.
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For the first time, the public will be able to track the health of those two key conservation areas as part of a $10 million program to boost science and park management.
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Living through a pandemic, conflicts, and climate change can feel like we’re carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders. So what does mental health look like when you are carrying the world’s problems in your brain, as a job?
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The 40-spotted pardalote’s instinct to feather its own nest is the key to a plan being hatched by canny scientists hoping to stop one of Australia’s rarest birds from disappearing forever.