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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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Wednesday, 19 Feb 2020
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60 Minutes CBS (USA) spoke to Dr Joelle Gergis from the Fenner School of Environment & Society about the link between the recent summer bushfires and climate change.

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Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020
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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 National Breakfast spoke to Fenner scientists.

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Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020
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Ecologists say the bushfires have done such damage to the Kosciuszko National Park that if brumbies aren't culled they'll wipe out native species. Triple j's 'Hack' program gives the latest on this long-running debate, chatting to Professor Jamie Pittock.

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Wednesday, 12 Feb 2020
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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 process and how it will affect other systems. Dr Steven Lade was one of the authors of the paper.

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Monday, 10 Feb 2020
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Opinion piece - Despite all of the earth observation data being used to retrieve critical fire information over our current fire crisis, Australia can definitely do better by launching its own space mission targeted to meet fire management requirements.

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Thursday, 30 Jan 2020
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In this opinion piece, Professor David Lindenmayer discusses the environmental risks of logging a forest that has been damaged by fire.

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Wednesday, 29 Jan 2020
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Two Fenner Affiliates have been awarded honours in the Australia Day Awards for 2020 - Professor Brian Walker, and Dr. Graeme Worboys.

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Wednesday, 29 Jan 2020
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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. Feral horses now threaten to destroy the remainder, and according to Professor Jamie Pittock, an urgent culling program is needed.

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A NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service firefighter amid some of the Wollemi pines he helped save.
Thursday, 16 Jan 2020
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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 record-breaking bushfires in NSW.

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