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12 Feb 2020
A new paper in Nature Sustainability looks at the concept of planetary boundaries, and assesses what are critical levels of interference in that Earth system...
12 Feb 2020
An ANU project wants to connect Australians with the Murray-Darling and shed light on the waterways' health by capturing its sights and sounds. ABC Radio...
10 Feb 2020
Opinion piece - Despite all of the earth observation data being used to retrieve critical fire information over our current fire crisis, Australia can...
30 Jan 2020
In this opinion piece, Professor David Lindenmayer discusses the environmental risks of logging a forest that has been damaged by fire.
29 Jan 2020
As the climate has warmed, the cool mountain habitat of species in the Kosciuszko National Park is shrinking; bushfires have decimated a lot of what was left....
29 Jan 2020
Two Fenner Affiliates have been awarded honours in the Australia Day Awards for 2020 - Professor Brian Walker, and Dr. Graeme Worboys.
16 Jan 2020
Efforts by firefighters on the ground and in the air have saved the only known natural grove of the world-famous Wollemi pines from destruction during the...
14 Jan 2020
Australia has a long history of bushfires. But several factors make eastern Australia’s recent crisis different to infamous bushfires in the past.
13 Jan 2020
While parts of Australia are now beginning to rebuild after devastating bushfires, an inevitable part of that is clearing the debris, including ash and fallen...
10 Jan 2020
Dr Geoff Cary discusses the Australian bushfire season, including links to climate change, on Voice of America: International Edition, 7 January 2020.
9 Jan 2020
Experts are pleading for leaders to look at the science and not make kneejerk decisions when it comes to managing fuel loads for bushfire risk. Professor David...
8 Jan 2020
For two weeks over the holiday period, Canberra has had some of the world's worst recorded air quality due to bushfire smoke. Former meteorologist and...