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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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Arifah
Monday, 18 Nov 2024
  • Student profile

Arifah Hidayati is studying the Master of Forests (advanced) program at the Fenner School of Environment and Society.

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Fenner community eating lunch around a long table.
Thursday, 07 Nov 2024
  • News

The Fenner community came together and shared their favourite meals at our annual International Lunch,

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Jyotirao Wankhede
Tuesday, 05 Nov 2024
  • Student profile

Jyotirao Wankhede completed a Master of Forestry (Advanced) at the Fenner School of Environment and Society.

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Light rays shining through clouds above a foggy landscape of mountains.
Wednesday, 30 Oct 2024
  • News

The risks of solar geoengineering will be magnified if critics are ignored and researchers are allowed to self-regulate.

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A hydropower dam.
Friday, 25 Oct 2024
  • News

Pumped hydro and batteries can easily provide all the storage needed for 100% renewable electricity generation, eliminating the need for polluting gas power plants.

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A patchwork of spinnifex grass in a red desert environment.
Wednesday, 16 Oct 2024
  • News
  • Research story

Since colonisation, cultural burning in the Great Sandy Desert ended. Now the work of caring for desert country (pirra) with fire (jungku, or warlu) has begun again.

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Tracks of a dusky hopping mouse found in red sand.
Monday, 30 Sep 2024
  • Research story

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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Two people in fire fighting attire face each other and smile while undertaking cultural burning in a woodland.
Thursday, 19 Sep 2024
  • News

Informing the re-emergence of First Nations burning in contemporary endangered woodlands in south-eastern Australia

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roo
Thursday, 19 Sep 2024
  • News

Two PhD opportunities are available to examine kangaroo populations, management practices, and their impact on biodiversity and rangeland ecosystems

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